By Maria Luisa Chavez | Project Leader
The new year brings new energies amogst our hardworking beekeepers. This means a new harvest will soon begin and new challenges we will have to face together. In 2019, our biggest obstacle was selling the harvested honey to fair markets for fair prices. We failed. Some honey was sold at extremely low prices, some was used to feed the bees while waiting for the next blooming season, the rest is still waiting for someone to offer a price that is acceptable.
In 2020 we will continue strenghtening field practices, and we will update information about the market, so the smallholder producers we work with feel empowered. We are looking for new commercial allies that help our project thrive, as well as new donors to support our costs!
We have seen the devastating effects of climate change all over the world (look at Australia's wildfires, for example). The beekeepers have seen them as well. We won't stop the fight against it, and beekeeping is going to help us do it!
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