Honduras La Casa Geisha Honey

Highlights

“La Casa sits at about 1,650 masl in Aldea Pacheco, La Paz, in the Montesillos region of Honduras, and is run by Claudia Petrona Garcia Medina, a second-generation grower and agricultural engineer who cleared the old trees five years ago and replanted 3,000 Pacamara and Geisha trees along the contour lines. Only deep-red ripe cherries go into this honey lot: they rest in nylon bags for 48 hours, are depulped and rested another 24 hours, then dry on raised screens under a rain shelter for 20 to 25 days, turned every half hour. Supplies and parchment leave the farm by mule because vehicles cannot reach it.”