Honey

Beekeeping has long been an important activity in the BURANCO valley. Its particularly favourable microclimate ensures that the bees have a constant supply of flowering trees and shrubs throughout the year. February provides sweet-smelling wild heather, March an abundance of yellow sheep’s sorrel, known locally as "bread and wine” because of its nutritional properties. April brings cherry, apricot and peach blossoms, in May the orange and lemon trees flower, acacia comes in June and in July there are blackberries aplenty. From August all through January this splendid coastal area provides a range of native flora ...