Sweet Beelize... Native Honey, Locally Sourced
Sweet Beelize is a stingless bee honey company, featuring Nannotrigona honey. Stingless bees are native to the tropics with six (6) known species in Belize. Thousands of years in Belize have enabled native bees to adapt to their surroundings, reducing, almost eliminating, the impact from disease and pests.
What We Do...
Starting work in the remote villages, Sweet Beelize provides a locally-made bee box to villagers who find a hive with a queen and eggs. Female-led teams in each village carefully transfer the hive into the new box, split hives, and remove the delicious honey. The honey is then purchased from the villager. This self-sustaining project provides a little income for a lot of people in the Toledo district, an area without jobs and a minimum wage of US $2.50 per hour (recently increased from $1.65).
Stingless Bees
- Do not sting
- Easy to extract their products
- Less vulnerable to disease
- Do not abandon their hive
- Ability to pollenate small-sized flowers
Team
- 2 women in each village are starting their own businesses
- Transfer hives into boxes
- Split hives into 2 boxes
- Collect honey
- Speak with my team about their life goals, letting them know this is seasonal work. Learned what they really want to do and am setting up individual plans, teaching them to save the required to enable goal attainment. Most women will be able to start after one season. Goals set include:
- Raise 100 chickens
- Raise pigs
- Build a home or guesthouse
- Cacao farm
- School – Hospitality or food prep
- Nursing degree
- Accountant
- Also advising them how to help themselves
- Save and budget money
- Use Google
- Find Tutorials
- Set up LLC or local business
- Obtain licensing
- Run a business
- Networking
- Sales / Marketing
- Recruiting
- Hire help as required in transferring hives
- New team members
Honey health benefits
- wound healing
- Antioxidant
- Anti-bacterial
- Anti-inflammatory
- Moisturizing
- Anti-microbial
- Anti-cancer
- Anti-diabetic
- Seizure reduction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9945235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9145090/
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- Universities
- Entomology
- Food Science
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