Rajan Craveri and Serena Zanconato made a life choice: to work and live with the bees in the woods round Rubiana at an altitude of 900 metres. In 2012 what had started as a passion in 2012 and turned it into a full-time job in 2018. The work they do is prevalently manual and aims to conserve the sensory properties of the honey as well as possible.
The hives are scattered among the woods of the Susa and Sangone Valleys.
Production follows the blossoming periods and seasons and consists of local honeys such as wildflower from the Rubiana woods, chestnut, lime, wild cherry, bramble and acacia. A great deal of attention is devoted to biodiversity and the well-being of the bees: if necessary the hives are treated solely with natural substances.
They practise a limited amount of nomadism to produce high-altitude mountain honey. The product range is completed by Valsusina, a honey cream with hazelnuts, cocoa from Ecuador or Sicilian almonds, and an interesting chocolate bar made with 65% stone-ground single origin cocoa from Ecuador and sweetened with honey. Products are sold either directly or by home-delivery
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