Established 1920: Yves Michaud, an engineer & beekeeper, founded the company Famille Michaud Apiculteurs. Moving his hives according to seasons and crops, Yves Michaud became the precursor of bee transhumance and set up various new beekeeping techniques.Famille Michaud Apiculteurs is an independent family company set up in 1920 and located in the Pyrenées-Atlantiques, France.
Over the years, Famille Michaud Apiculteurs has combined tradition and modernity to become the European leader in honey and natural sweeteners (maple and agave syrups).
Unparalleled Non Polluting Environment: France is divided into 22 regions and every one produces honey. France has one of the oldest and best managed honey industries in the world.
Famille Michaud Apiculteurs opted for ‘Made in France’ products. Its know-how relies on the diversity and quality of French honeys, praised by many in France or abroad. Their tastes, colors, textures remain unequalled. Everything depends on their floral origins (lavender, heather, acacia, etc.) and on the beekeeping techniques used. In France, Famille Michaud Apiculteurs works in partnership with over 500 beekeepers. All its products are put into jars at its factory in Gan, South-western France, where it employs more than 200 employees.
Yves Michaud, who founded the company in 1920, initiated a dynamic of innovation. As a pioneer of modern beekeeping, he was the first in France to move his hives to summer pastures following the seasons (‘transhumance’), hence collecting different honey types. Since then, Famille Michaud Apiculteurs has been developing its own processes to put honey into jars while preserving its nutritional and taste properties. It also set up in 1973 the first company laboratory in the world for honey analyses. The lab guarantees the purity and freshness of all the honeys supplied by Famille Michaud Apiculteurs, as well as their floral and geographical origin.
The Lune de Miel® brand was created. Today it is the leading brand in France, with a 32% market share. Lune de Miel® (meaning 'honeymoon' in French) is the first honey brand distributed in the world, boasting an international presence in 59 countries. It sells about 28 million honey jars every year.
Lune de Miel® Mono Floral Finest Selection Range
What is Monofloral honey?
It is a type of honey which is highly valued because it has a distinctive flavor or other attribute due to its being predominantly from the nectar of one plant species.
Monofloral honeys are also kept in separate tanks and labeled separately and command a more premium price. All the honeys we sell are top quality and always 100% pure and natural products.
Their taste depends on the foraged flower(s). Monofloral honeys (acacia, orange blossom, clover, etc. are more expensive because they are scarcer than polyfloral honeys (multi-flower…).
Do you know? A 1 kg honey jar thus represents about 200 days’ work and a distance of 40.000 km buzzing around 800.000 flowers for a single forager bee!
1) Acacia Honey (375GM)
Ingredients & Nutritional Information:
The shelf life of our honey is 2 years from date of manufacture and please be rest assured that you will receive fresh stocks.
What Is Acacia Honey?
A light and clear pale honey made from nectar from the Acacia flower. Has a mild delicate floral taste. Slow to crystallize. Contains energizing properties that aids asthenia & physical weakness.
Recommended use:
To be to eaten with yoghurt.
To be used as a sweetener for drinks without changing taste of the drink.
To be eaten with pastries.
Acacia honey has a very low sucrose content and a high fructose level, so it is one of the better choices for diabetics. It is known for its therapeutic qualities because it cleanses the liver, conditions the intestines, and is beneficial for the respiratory system due to antibacterial properties - another benefit of honey.
Have you tried acacia honey as a sugar substitute in your baking or cooking? It is mild and mixes easily with liquids and batters.Or how about some hot honey lemon tea to soothe your throat?
Or maybe just with your bread or waffles for breakfast?
2) Lavender Honey (375GM)
Ingredients & Nutritional Information: 
The shelf life of our honey is 2 years from date of manufacture and please be rest assured that you will receive fresh stocks.More About Lavender Honey :
Connoisseurs consider gourmet lavender honey to be the best honey in the world. It has an aromatic & floral taste and contains calming properties. Lavender honey is unmatched in richness and exquisite in flavor.
The honey is viscous due to the presence of naturally occurring beeswax and pollen. It is creamy and thick with a soothing aromatic smell and sweet flavour.
It helps to relieve respiratory tract infections, migraines, headaches & aid wound healing and is highly recommended as a spread for pastries or as a sweetener for hot drinks.
Consistency of honeyWhen just produced by bees, all honeys have a liquid consistency, but many of them will crystallize. This natural status change will occur after 2 to 3 days, a few weeks or even a few months depending on their composition and environment.
The composition of honey influences its texture.
— Honey is made of various sugars, the two main being glucose and fructose. The higher the glucose content, the faster honey will crystallize. This fructose/glucose proportion varies according to the flowers foraged. For example, Acacia honey contains more than 40% of fructose and less than 28% of glucose, which naturally allows it to keep its pouring consistency for more than a year. Contrarily, honeys such as clover, sunflower, etc. with higher glucose content will be thicker, and have a more or less smooth texture.We Are Serious About Our Honey!
(so please don't just use price to compare on our honey!)
From the hive to the shelf, the characteristics and route of each batch of honeys are carefully recorded. Using accurate data management systems, total traceability of the honeys are ensured. Pollen analysis is rarely performed today but remain a practice for all Lune de Miel honeys. This analysis reveals the floral source, geographic origin of each honey. Each sample is examined and coded for quality tracking purposes
Check this out!
Our video, although in french, but will show you images of the production facility!
Choose & support suppliers that create a sustainable environment for both bees & beekeepers. Why settle for any less when you also get to enjoy good quality honey that is analysed, tested, certified and carefully packed to preserve its natural properties?
Charter of Commitment
–To preserve the characteristics and qualities of certain apicultural regions
–To select honeys from regions protected from harmful and polluting elements
–To value the know-how of producers
Besides complying with applicable laws (Honey Directive 2001/110/EC in particular) signatory beekeepers commit to implement specific production means in 2014, according to the following criteria:
Selection and respect of the production area’s environment
Selected production areas must be protected from harmful and polluting elements by:
–The absence cities of more than 500.000 inhabitants within a 25 km radius, of urban areas of more than 150.000 inhabitants within a 10 km radius
–The absence of chemical and/or oil industries within a 20 km radius
–The absence of nuclear power plants within a 20 km radius
–The absence of public landfills or waste incinerators within a 5 km radius
–The absence of motorways within a 3 km radius
–The absence of airports within a 10 km radius
Respect of beekeeping traditions
–Using traditional wooden hives and frames
–Use of plastic, aluminum or polystyrene hives and plastic frames is banned
–Honey must be extracted by cold centrifugation (without any other heat source than this of room temperature)
Respect of beekeeping production techniques
–Use of chemical repellents to collect honey is banned
–Use of antibiotics to treat producing hives is banned
Famille Michaud Apiculteurs also commits to combat bee mortality through its Fondation Lune de Miel®. Set up in April 2014, this foundation under the aegis of the Fondation de France aims at protecting bees and developing apiculture.
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