agree, writing it down doesn't replace actually learning the cliff by climbing it, but it does help with things like the CoA and traceability side tha...

Mostly passed hands-on still, from father to son typically, watching and doing rather than reading. some of it has started getting documented more rec...

Also worth saying different cliffs at similar altitude can still vary a lot depending on exposure, weather that season, and which bees actually forage...

Other regions do have the right plants growing, but the specific cliff harvesting tradition and the scale of production really is concentrated in a fe...

exactly, that's also part of why supply is genuinely limited in a real way, not just a marketing framing of scarcity.

from the harvesting side, pooling is also just how a lot of cooperatives operate practically, several families' honey combined and sold together, sinc...

Also it's a wild species, not domesticated or kept in managed hives the way most honeybees people know are. that's part of why this is a harvest or hu...

It is real, people asking for safety before a dangerous climb is not something that was invented for an audience. What's changed is more people now kn...

in a lot of the harvesting areas the forage isn't a single species to begin with. it's whatever is flowering on that cliff in that season, and the bee...

Yes, and it's part of why some areas can offer real batch documentation now and others genuinely can't yet. Nobody there is hiding anything. It's reco...

The two aren't variants of each other, and thats what a tier list hides. Cliff harvesting is the giant Himalayan bee, on ropes, over a drop. Ground hi...

It varies a lot and there's no single system. I can only tell you what I've seen. Some villages have proper cooperatives now that negotiate together a...

Understandable, and not really your fault. What travels outside is the export story, because that's the part that gets photographed and written up. Th...

Both, and the order matters. The local relationship with it came first and it's still there. The export market is the newer thing sitting on top of th...

And it is not only the species. Here it is particular cliff colonies, particular weeks of the bloom, particular altitude — the same flower down in the...