ENKornati honey - distances become proximity
The Kornati islands, which you can get to know by sailing and sightseeing from the ship, are by themselves so miraculous that it takes one's breath away. They are definitely for most people a phenomenon that is only viewed from a distance.
Most people never manage to experience the Miracle up close, much less from the inside.
Thus, the Kornati, with their complex universe of meaning, are revealed only to those who have desires, happiness and ways to meet them by stepping on their almost mystical karst - getting to know local people, listening to their characteristic speech and absorbing their stories.
Knowing that most people will never experience how Kornati sage smells when, once a year, many of the islands' slopes turn purple with its blooms, we wanted to shed light on the part of the story of Kornati sage honey.
This honey is unique in the world due to its high cultivar purity, i.e., an extremely high percentage of pollen grains of sage itself. On the islands, which by its nature is stingy in terms of the number of honey species, sage is the essential grazing of corn bees. This honey has, therefore, such a high concentration of sage.
Therefore, we have decided to procure a certain limited amount of this exceptional honey every year and promote it, conveying the truth about its uniqueness, as part of the offer for those who want something original from the Kornati itself.
Believing that distances can become proximities, we enclose a record of what seven beekeepers from the Kornati said:
1. "When Tarac was full, the bees did not move to Murter."
(On the lack of pasture on the Kornati in relation to the time when there were fruit trees that began to bloom early and were food for bees when they woke up from hibernation.)
2. "Two bitter almonds, fifty old almond trees, one hundred and sixty olive trees ..." (About the trees that one family has in the field.)
3. "One year the "bura" wind blew two beehives into the sea."
(About what happens when you are a Kornati beekeeper with a very close field to the sea.)
4. "I am near Lupeška Bay and Proversa, facing Žut."
(About where the hives of one of the seven are.)
5. "On the side of the bay means in the corner, "jugo" and "maestral" winds ..."
(About the exact place in the bay where the bees are on the Kornati islands.)
6. "I represent a bridge between the old and the new generation ..."
(About the awareness of the oldest beekeeper who with his knowledge helps others a lot to keep beekeeping on the Kornati islands.)
7. "I am on Piškera, opposite the place where the first fire was burning on Panitula ..."
(About the location of one of the youngest beekeepers, in a place where in Venetian times were seven houses with seven masters.)