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with Raymond Harris of Treetop Honey Company
Tuesday, September 22
Treetop Honey Company provides an opportunity for small-scale African village farmers to thrive.. enabling them to have sustainable livelihoods.
The founders of Treetop Honey developed and perfected a modified version of the Kenyan Top-bar beehive and the unique method of suspending them in trees for the safety and benefit of the bee colony.
They went on to develop their own beehive manufacturing process and beehive factory with a focus on using only sustainably grown pine and eucalyptus wood.
Treetop Honey's business model – producing their own bee hives, giving them to rural villagers free of charge, suspending them in trees, harvesting and refining the honey themselves – is unique. This process gives them the advantage of complete traceability and ensuring their customers receive the purest honey.
Treetop Honey's mission is to provide the highest quality honey worldwide while uplifting African rural communities as well as aid the local ecology through biodiversity.
Every year hundreds of tons of their honey is exported in food grade drums. Their current export markets include South Africa, Namibia, United States, United Kingdom and Germany.
Treetop Honey harvests twice a year for a steady and consistent supply of honey and beeswax for their customers.