A whole range of trees provide honey, including sweet chestnut and fir. However, the bees do not gather this very aromatic forest honey from the flowers in the mountainous fir forests around Camaldoli, but are dependent on the cooperation of ants and certain lice, which produce the aromatic honeydew in abundance. A fascinating symbiosis!

Camaldoli is one of those unique monastic places that gave rise to an entire monastic culture and is still alive today. The number 11 plays a role here: the 11th century and 1,111 m above sea level mark the space-time structure in which St. Romuald founded this semi-hermitic branch of the Benedictines north-east of Arezzo. Similar to the Kartäusern, there are also hermit monks here, each living in small houses with gardens. As a Benedictine legacy, there is also a monastery with community life, so that a Camaldolese can choose which way of life he prefers. One of the areas of work there is beekeeping.

Sales description:

Forest honey

Ingredients:

Forest honey

Origin / provenance:

Italy

Responsible food business operator:

Casa Generalizia della Congr. degli Eremiti Camaldolesi 52010 Camaldoli Italy