Let's Build Gonave, Haiti!

A honey production facility would be needed on La Gonave to process the honey that will be produced on the island.  While the processing of the honey is a year away, steps are being taken now to ensure that we have the needed resources and financing for the facility. While we will start with a small amount of hives initially, we hope to expand rather quickly beginning 2017.  We also hope to have high quality honey that we can sell in Haiti, but also make products from mead to food products.  We plan to have the production facility to grow along with the hives.  Our initial system will be large enough to have over 20 hives at a time.  This initial system will have an electric hot knife as an uncapper.  The extractor is large enough to do 9 frames at a time, which will cut down on processing time.  The straining system will allow for different grades of honey from chunky to sparkling honey.  It then allows that honey, free of wax, to then be ...

Our first year of honey operation will start next year, however harvesting honey probably won't start until the following year.  Why?  Well one way of providing a good insurance policy is to allow the bees to collect honey in their new environment and keep it all.  This new territory of La Gonave will have different flowers, trees, temperature, etc than what the bees are use to.  The bees will have to scout the land to find locations of water, pollen, and nectar.  So literally the first year the bees will be getting use to La Gonave, and their hive setup. During that year however, we will be building hive boxes, building the honeybee highway, and continuing education for those interested in beekeeping.  We will setup workshops that will educate people on ways to harvest honey.  Also during that year we will be planning locations for our expansion, building/planning where the observation hive will be, and of course raising more money for the progra...