black hive honey
Honey produced in the old fashioned way, using methods such as logs, baskets, hooped hives and rocks, is black hive honey. (KARAKOVAN BALI)
Black Hive
It is called karakovan not because its color is black, but because of its method. Black order involves crude methods.
Types of hives in Old Style Hive
Karahive honey can be obtained using different methods such as log hives, hoop hives, basket hives, pottery hives, cave-rock cavities.
Billet Beehive Method
It is a type of hive made with the help of logs in some regions. It is a little more difficult to intervene in the bee or keep the bee under technical controls.
Basket Type Bee Hive
It is a type of hive made with the help of baskets in some regions. Bee intervention or technical controls are difficult.
Pulleyed / Prepared BlackHive
Thin wooden rings called hoops are placed and the bee is expected to make everything from honey to wax to this frame.
With the development of technical beekeeping, farmers' hive types with lids, controllable and countable interiors have emerged. No candles, honeycomb etc. are placed inside. not put. It is the same method as traditional karakovan.
Why Old Style Blackhive (Karakovan)
Karakovan honey is interesting in that bees make all the wax from scratch and the honeycomb shape generally has a more circular appearance. Think of a swallow building a nest or a grouse incubating. The fact that the bee builds its colony in the hive, away from technical materials, creates a different feeling. Karakovan honey has always been attractive to people.
Is Karakovan honey better?
Karahive or modern hive honey has no superiority over each other. The superiority lies in the quality of the honey. If the quality can be measured and the beekeeper can explain the processes by which he produces honey, then we can discuss which honey is better. In our country, unfortunately, consumers do not question what is in honey, its quality and naturalness as much as they question candles.
Perhaps the most important things are "chemically uncontaminated beehive, honey and beekeeper".
The fact that the bee makes honey freely, that there is no adulteration in the honey, and the source of the nectar in the honey is more important than the candle. The wax in comb honey has no nutritional value.
The honey made by bees traveling in a rich nature will be more fragrant, rich in nectar, pollen and propolis, and of higher quality. Karakovan honey, produced immorally by breeding, will be a sweeter than jam.
Normal honeycomb honey
Generally, in wooden hives, a molded and dried natural bee wax, that is, a wax membrane, is placed on wooden slats with steel wires stretched. Then the bee swells the honeycomb on this surface and produces honey.
Although this basic honeycomb is popularly known as artificial wax, it is actually obtained in the form of a sheet from the wax obtained from the honey made by the bee. It is pure bee wax without additives. It is in the form of a thin plate, resembling A4 paper, with an average weight of 70-80 grams.
Why blackhive beekeeping is hard?
In nature, bees build wax as they wish according to the shape of their nest, and there is no need for starter wax because there are no people to harvest it.However, when it comes to humans, sized candles and frames come into play for tasks that require many measurements and a certain order, such as removing and checking the combs, checking eggs and queens, in order to work in the hive.
In addition, the basic starting candle is also important in terms of time. To secrete 1 KG of beeswax, bees eat and consume 10 KG of honey from the hive. Just think about the rest.
Real Black Hive Honey
Unfortunately, in Turkey, the number of people producing hive honey by feeding bees with sugar syrups and various artificial syrups has increased. Thus, while our citizens were eating honeycombs that dissolved in their mouths, which were "100% candles made by bees", they forgot to ask about the honey inside the candles and ended up consuming sugary sherbet, adulterated and perhaps chemically contaminated honey as black hives.
Black Hive Honey Prices
We produce karahive honey in the forest as much as our capacity is sufficient. As our products become available, we offer them to you at baldukkani.com.tr/dukkan, you can review the prices on the relevant page.
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