Honey and milk (from the goat Amaltheia), so was the nourishment of God ... What grew!!! Honey, dairy, cereals, olive oil, vegetables and fruits make up the basis of the Cretan diet. Bees produce honey from the nectar of flowers, which are the most excellent has to give a plant in his life. Bees collect, the process, the disinfect and seal in its cells. From there take the beekeeper.
It is perfectly reasonable for the quality of honey depends on the nectar of the flowers they visit each bee. And also absolutely right that, as many beneficial flowers visited the more quality honey will perform. In Crete thrive most of 1,742 kinds of plants and herbs, of which 159, as say botanists are only of native flora, i.e. does not grow anywhere else in the world! This is the material on which the working bee. And this material is the basis of honey of Crete.
And other products of beekeeping such as Royal Jelly – the Royal food blister, flower pollen, propolis to protect the hive and the wax is high value products (for drug and cosmetic industry) that are high value products produced by beekeepers in the area.
Giouchtas psiloritis, the surrounding smaller mountains and hills with flowers and trees of the wild flora and flowers than traditional crops are basically bee pastures ... more
Honey producers of the hinterland of the municipality of Heraklion:
Stavrakia
John Andreas, tsatsakis Tel: 6972848545 honey-Royal Jelly
Voutes
Nikos Kornilios
Pirgou
Vamvoukakis Kon/Nos
Kato Asites
Kavros Lefteris, Tel: 6974405467
Ano Asites
Emmanuel Kapelakis, Tel: 2810 861064-open space
Kostas Kapelakis, Tel: 6944993305
Liapakis Spiros, Tel: 6937448324
Kopidakis Zacharis, Tel: 6946156630
Kerasia
Spyridon Vlachakis, Tel: 6974725051
John Prokopakis, Tel: 6974770547
Xenogiannakis Georgios of Emm, Tel: 6946822042
Bretzos Anastasios
Avgeniki
Pavlakis Thomas
Manolis tsabourakis, Tel: 6988254000 – 6906988096
Venerato
Theophilus Artemis of Michael
Vasilis Charkoytsis Evaggelou
Charkoytsi Meropi
Kiparissi
Vamvoukakis Fillipas, Tel: 6989942937
Roukani
Kostis Dakanalis, Tel: 6944919500
Antonis Skoulas, Tel: 6987284512
Agios Syllas
Stratidakis Nikolaos
Yiannoula Haronitis
Agios Vlasios
Vassilis Kabbalos, Tel: 6937217866
Vasilies
Makrina Papadopoulou, Tel: 2810 881980-6936871054