Ancestral Knowledge, Community Harvest

Explore our articles on meliponiculture, the medicinal properties of native honey, and news about the conservation of native bees in Nicaragua.

Learn More About Meliponiculture

Articles that document our beekeeping techniques, the medicinal uses of honey, and our efforts to care for bees.

Between the Forest and Memory: Bees That Live in Our Hearts

Between the forest and memory, native bees beat in our hearts as guides, family, and hope. This article is an intimate journey through what connects us to them: love, collective memory, and the certainty that, by caring for them, we care for ourselves.

Jicotes: Nicaragua, the Lands of Honey, and the Power of Words

There was a time when homes hung jicotes instead of candy, and honey healed both body and spirit. This is a journey through Nicaragua’s beekeeping heritage.

Coming Together to Thrive: Native Bees, Resilience, and the Strength of Roots

Don Lino’s story is that of thousands of migrants who, after experiencing the pain of being uprooted, find in the land and in native bees the path back home, to dignity, and to themselves.

Would you like to help out?

Native bees are disappearing. You can help change that story. With your support, we sustain community-based bee farms that protect these guardians of our forests

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Red Nicaragüense de Meliponicultura

Conservation of Native Bees and Pure Medicinal Honeys from Nicaragua

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