Pure Joy Honey

Pure Joy Honey

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Pure Joy Honey is a social enterprise that works with local beekeepers to produce sustainable, organic honey in western Tanzania.

Photos 15/06/2019

One of our beekeepers pointing the way to his hives! 🐝🍯🐝





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🐝 Meet The Beekeeper 🐝
Grace Mauki has been beekeeping since 1999, and it brings her immense joy. When she isn’t harvesting honey, Grace teaches children and loves crafting!





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Save the Bees! According to , we have a bee to thank for one in every three bites of food you eat.





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Our beekeepers have camps in the middle of the woods where they often stay for months at a time while harvesting honey. After a day of collecting honey, they huddle around the fire for tea.




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A forest beekeeper can climb up to 50 feet up a tree to lower down the hive to retrieve the honey. That’s a long way down!




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The Amber variety has a full and fruity flavor. When the rains start in October and November the Malagarasi river picks up stream and the first forest flowers of the season begin to bloom. When this honey is harvested in December and January, the river is in full flow. Our beekeepers use push bikes to navigate the forest paths to harvest this wild honey.




Health

Raw honey: 7 health benefits and possible risks 26/05/2019

Raw honey contains nutrients that pasteurized honey does not. In the pasteurization process, honey is heated to increase its shelf-life and remove yeast cells, but often kills many of its natural nutrients. Our honey is raw and comes straight from the forest, 100% Pure Joy!




Raw honey: 7 health benefits and possible risks Raw honey is honey taken straight from the beehive. It may offer more health benefits than regular honey. In this article, we look at what is raw honey, its health benefits, and possible risks.

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The Dark Amber variety is a warm, rich, honey. This aromatic honey is harvested in September and October from flowers that bloom in the last weeks of the wet season.




Curious Questions: Do bees really need to be kept in artificial hives? - Country Life 22/05/2019

Do bees really need to be kept in artificial hives? No! Forest beekeepers have been carving hives out of tree logs for generations. It's a natural, inexpensive way to start a bee colony!




Curious Questions: Do bees really need to be kept in artificial hives? - Country Life Beekeepers have kept their bees in filing cabinet-style hives for ya that we've long since ceased to question whether they actually need them. Yet why would such a simple, natural creature need such an obviously man-made home? Vicky Liddell speaks to one man who has found an alternative.

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We fill about 800 jars a day with raw, organic honey here at the factory!




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Who we are

Pure Joy Honey is a social enterprise that works with local beekeepers to produce sustainable, organic honey in western Tanzania.

Location

Address


Kasulu Road
Kigoma