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Egadi of Beekeeping: Honey Bee Timo

L’esercizio dell’apicoltura a fini economici vanta una tradizione, nelle isole Egadi, che si fa risalire al tempo della colonizzazione romana. La fonte principale di informazione, oltre la tradizione orale, è rappresentata dal lavoro del naturalista napoletano Monticelli Teodoro, che trascorse esule alcuni anni nell’isola di Favignana, pubblicando la sua esperienza in un trattatello del 1835 che ha per titolo “Del trattamento delle api in Favignana”.

Nelle isole le principali fonti nettarifere sono tuttora heather multiflora represented, from rosemary, and thyme from the thistle varieties capitatus.

The largest quantity was sold and is by far made up of thyme honey, the plant, the Timus capitatus, the most widespread in Favignana, was a source of transhumance in Sicily and precisely along the coastal strip between Marsala and Mazzara where the terrain to ski tuff, is particularly conducive to the spontaneous spread of the plant. Today, this range has very limited modern shearing machines allow you to transform your skiing in uncultivated agricultural land particularly suited to crops in greenhouses.

bush bloomed thyme

Transhumance was conducted by means of barges called schifazzi ", a version of the great Mediterranean crop, normally used for carrying goods and in particular the white tuff from the quarries of Favignana, Sicily were exported for the construction of fine homes.

thyme honey has always been considered one of the best honeys in the world, from A publication of the Institute of historical merceologia Pescara is noted that in Roman times were known and traded Three main types of honey, honey Penthouse the most appreciated, today we would call the top of the line, honey Ibleo classic thyme honey of a quality comparable Phoenician and honey, a popular product.

The thymus is part of life and culture of Egadi, in June, when the plant blooms, the landscape is dominated by patches of pink-purple thyme bushes, bunches of the plant are used in respect for tradition, in the processing of tuna during cooking, which gives it a characteristic aroma and taste, in the past was used by the poor as domestic fuel.

Viewpoints In the forties and fifties of the last century, the farm hand was the poorest class of the population and, after a hard day's work was his task to provide fuel for the preparation of the only daily meal for him and his family. So, on the way back home, get some twigs of thyme, the only woody plant on the island available for free to all. The fireworks lit the evening air of the country to spread a special flavor that for those who still remember those sad times, is the smell of poverty.