Preparing for honey production facility
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 ...