Our Story
A good beekeeper doesn’t need to continuously rummage the hive to know if everything is going well!
Beekeeping in Sardinia has always been practised by those living natural resources. In our family do beekeeping is a tradition that has been handed down for generations. In the early 20th, grandpa Efisio and grandpa Basilio, a goatherd other lumberjacks, produced honey in traditional oak cork hives. Even in the early 1960s, dad Tertullo continued the tradition by collecting the honey that Sardinian honeybees produced in the oak cork hives cleverly placed where were used to be the so-called 'Ortus de is Abis' (Garden's bees), which are mentioned in the Carta de Logu.
However, it was only thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of 'mamma' Giustina, her determination and her passion for bees that in the mid-1970s the first beekeeping company of the family was founded. She decided to abandon the oak cork hives to use the modern beehives, to implement the production of honey and to set up a modern and commercial farm. This was a novelty even for Sardinia in general. Indeed, according to the first Census of beekeeping in the Island, in 1977 beekeeping in Sardinia was still tied primarily to the use of traditional hives, and only the 12.1% of hives were of the modern type. Thus, the hives of mamma Giustina were part of that small percentage.
In those years, taking advantage of the teachings handed down by Tertullo, and the entrepreneurial experiences of Justina, we decided to start our own business. Together with Francesca, my life companion, we began to collect wild swarms, placing them into rational hives that were hand built by ourselves. Immediately we noticed the profound difference between wild bees and bees breaded from other beekeepers.
It took time, passion, dedication, and long hours spent observing nature to learn to work in harmony with these wonderful insects. Romano realized that he had to adapt to the times and the needs of his bees. So, instead of containing the wild nature of the bees, we try to make sure that our bees are stronger and have more opportunities to survive for instance the attack of predators and antagonists.
After 40 years of activity in close contact with our bees, we don't need to open the hive to evaluate the health of our families. Our approach to beekeeping is the most respectful as possible, we try to give time and space to the colonies so they develop its defense independently.
For this reason and because we strongly believe in the value of biodiversity in our area, we specialize in the breeding of a local ecotype of Sardinian bee, which we think is stronger and able to adapt quickly to specific microclimate conditions of this area.
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