Apicoltura Canavesana

Deborah Caserio calls herself a “bee breeder”. Together with her father Cesare, she run the business started by her mother. Little by little, Deborah allowed herself to be infected by this family passion and decided to leave her steady job and dedicate herself body and soul to beekeeping. “Moving the hives round the mountains is hard work,” she says a she travels up and down the valleys of the Canavese area, especially the Valle Orco and Val Soana, positioning the bee families in the places most conducive to the production of high-quality honey. The result, at altitudes of up to 1,750 metres, is mountain rhododendron and wild flower honeys (both Slow Food Presidia). Some of the other typologies, such as the chestnut honey, bear the “Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso” quality trademark. Deborah’s work, which has earned her a role as a judge in national honey competitions, involves managing hundreds of families of bees, her own and others that she transfers to other beekeepers. Also on sale at the shop (open on Thursday and Friday from 3.30pm to 7.30 pm and on Saturday from 10am to 12.30pm and 3pm to 7.30pm) are select honeys from other Italian regions, cosmetics, beeswax candles, GeneBee, chestnut and rhododendron honey-flavoured genepì liqueur and aromatised grappas.

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