Ogiek Community Forest Association chairman Francis Maritim says each of the 1,000 beehives provides at least 54kgs of honey. A kilo of honey fetches Sh350. “Whenever we harvest the honey ...
Stanley Imbusi’s grandfather Lumbasio was a traditional medicine man whose trick for curing varied ailments was centred on honey from stingless bees found in Kakamega tropical rain forest.
of which 4,493 sq. km., is inhabited and the rest is categorised as reserve forest. Home to the Royal Bengal tigers, the risk to life is so high that this honey is also called “blood honey”.