The Villa de Villa Crafts and Heritage Award La Orotava, granted by the Villero City Council since 2004, will be granted in this XIX edition to the group of beekeepers, attending to the proposal of the Pinolere Cultural Association. For this reason, during the opening ceremony of the next Pinolere Regional Crafts Fair, which will take place on Friday, September 2, the award will be presented and collected, on behalf of those who work in this trade in the municipality, representatives of the North Tenerife Beekeepers Association and the Tenerife Beekeepers Association (ATA). The proposal was unanimously approved by the extraordinary plenary session of the municipal corporation held yesterday.
The municipality of La Orotava has the largest number of beekeeping settlements in Tenerife, producing honey from the coast to the Teide National Park. Thus, this activity has centuries of tradition, giving rise to a trade, that of the beekeeper, with a great cultural heritage of importance for the Villa that has unique natural ecosystems.
«The displacement of hives from the coast to the mountain or the summit is an ancestral practice linked to the flowering of the aforementioned species. This transhumance of bees, depending on availability, makes this beekeeping trade unique. Tradition that has been adapted to the new times, with the use of mechanical procedures that guarantee a higher quality when processing the honey”, collects a press release from the Orotavense City Council.
This important centuries-old traditional legacy has managed to be collected by the two aforementioned associations of beekeepers based in this northern municipality, and which manage the stalls at the Farmer’s Market and the Camino de Chasna Honey Extraction Center, which provides service to more than a hundred producers in the region. As for the honeys produced in La Orotava, there is a great diversity of types, both monofloral and multifloral, they specified from the Orotavense Consistory.
