The organic Fir Honey “FASILIS” was awarded for its quality and its organoleptic characteristics in the International Competition of Organic Beekeeping “BIOLMIEL 2011”.
The Organic Fir Honey belongs to the category of honeydews and it is collected from granules and aphids that parasite on the Greek firs and produce honey dews which are pollinated by the bees. The most important granule is the “Phemicryphus” and it parasites on the “abies cephalonica”. A specific type of fir that grows on the mountainous areas at the south of Olympos, in Evritania, Pertouli, Karpenisi, Taygeto, Arcadia (Mount Parnon and Mount Mainalo) and in other areas.
The organic Fir Honey “FASILIS” is collected in the fir forests of Arcadia (Mount Parnon and Mount Mainalo) in Peloponnese. At an altitude grading from 800m to 1300m from early June until late July.
The area of Mount Parnon and the gorge of the Monastery of Elona, where the honey is collected, are part of the Natura Network 2000.
It is a European Ecological Network of areas that host natural habitats and habitats of some very important at European level species.