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Bee Good

Beekeeping is just part of the mission at Fairmont Orchid and Mauna Kea Resort

BY Krystal Kakimoto

Across the island, other sustainability proponents are also working to increase honey production on the island to help the environment with bees pollinating crops in the area to support and strengthen agriculture while treating consumers with delicious organic honey produced in their backyards. Located on the Kohala Coast, The Fairmont Orchid offers a Mālama Hawai‘i program aimed to invite guests to learn about the land that they are visiting and practice responsible tourism. Their popular Bee Sustainable program is a complimentary, weekly program where guests can explore their chef’s garden and view the onsite beehives which contain about 80,000 honeybees producing raw, white, mono floral kiawe honey.

Just a short jaunt up the coast, things are also buzzing at Mauna Kea Resort, where new apiaries are having a significant impact on the environment by establishing honeybee populations that help provide pollination for local farming, flowers, and native plant production, while producing honey used in the resort's restaurants and bars.

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