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Threats to India's Bees - and How Ethical Brands Respond hero image
Threats to India's Bees - and How Ethical Brands Respond
India runs on bees. Roughly 70% of the country’s food crops depend to some degree on pollinators, and in the Himalayan hills the apples, apricots, mustard and wild bloom that... Read more...
How Honeycomb Is Made and Harvested: Wax, Hexagons and Comb Honey hero image
How Honeycomb Is Made and Harvested: Wax, Hexagons and Comb Honey
By the Pahadi Source Editorial Team · July 2026 | Reading time: 9 minutes Everyone knows bees make honey. Far fewer people know that before a single drop of honey... Read more...
Extraction Day: Inside a Himalayan Honey Harvest hero image
Extraction Day: Inside a Himalayan Honey Harvest
By the Pahadi Source Editorial Team · July 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes It is not yet light in the hills above Rishikesh. There is a particular hour before... Read more...
Raw Honey Extraction Methods: Crush, Spin & Comb hero image
Raw Honey Extraction Methods: Crush, Spin & Comb
By the Pahadi Source Editorial Team · July 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes Two jars can both say “raw” and still have been made in completely different ways. The... Read more...
No Sugar-Feeding, No Antibiotics: What Clean Beekeeping Means hero image
No Sugar-Feeding, No Antibiotics: What Clean Beekeeping Means
A honey label can shout "raw", "natural" and "organic" and still tell you nothing about the two decisions that most directly shape what is in the jar: what the bees... Read more...
How Beekeeping Protects Himalayan Biodiversity & Pollination hero image
How Beekeeping Protects Himalayan Biodiversity & Pollination
A jar of honey is the sweet part of the story. The far bigger part — the one that never reaches the shelf — is pollination. Every time a bee... Read more...
The Honey Harvesting Calendar: Which Indian Honey Comes in Which Season hero image
The Honey Harvesting Calendar: Which Indian Honey Comes in Which Season
Most people assume honey is one thing, made all year round. It isn't. Honey is a seasonal harvest, as tied to the calendar as mangoes or oranges — and in... Read more...
How Wild Forest Honey Is Harvested in the Himalayas hero image
How Wild Forest Honey Is Harvested in the Himalayas
By the Pahadi Source Editorial Team · July 2026 | Reading time: 9 minutes Most honey you buy comes from a wooden box. A beekeeper places managed hives in an... Read more...
Single-Origin vs Multi-Floral Honey: How Source Shapes the Jar hero image
Single-Origin vs Multi-Floral Honey: How Source Shapes the Jar
By the Pahadi Source Editorial Team · July 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes Line up a jar of pale, quick-setting mustard honey next to a dark, molasses-scented neem honey... Read more...
Ethical vs Industrial Beekeeping in India: An Honest Comparison hero image
Ethical vs Industrial Beekeeping in India: An Honest Comparison
Two jars of honey can sit side by side on a shelf, both labelled "pure", and come from worlds that barely resemble each other. One might be the surplus of... Read more...
How to Choose an Ethical, Sustainable Honey Brand hero image
How to Choose an Ethical, Sustainable Honey Brand
Stand in front of a shelf of honey and every jar is shouting the same words at you: Raw. Natural. Pure. 100%. They sound like promises. Almost none of them... Read more...
How Raw Honey Is Lab-Tested for Purity (NMR & Beyond) hero image
How Raw Honey Is Lab-Tested for Purity (NMR & Beyond)
Most articles about spotting fake honey stop at your kitchen counter — the water test, the thumb test, the flame test. Those are useful first filters, and we have written... Read more...