Who are we ?
TIERRA MAYA by Renaud & Céline: our story is simply a story of encounters...
- seasonal restaurateurs in Marseille for 20 years, we have discovered over time our passion for travel, cultures, unusual places, world gastronomy.
- in 2017, we decided to answer the call of the distant land, we sold our family restaurant and left with our three children, to Mexico , without a return ticket.
- at the bend of a desert beach, at the tip of the biosphere of Sian Kaan, we meet by the greatest chance, Michel & Magda .
- this Franco-Mexican couple, beekeepers passionate about Mayan culture, have chosen to adapt the ancestral harvesting process used for melipone bees to apis bees. Thus harvesting a rare, pure honey with an authentic flavor.
- admiring and in love with this honey, we had the crazy idea of creating Tierra Maya in order to make it known in France. It is not a competitor but another terroir, another taste, another story...
- our desire: to continue our travels, our meetings and to offer you other hidden treasures!
A little history...
Honey has been used since the dawn of time by many civilizations, which devoted an important cult to it and considered the bee to be divine.
An ancestral know-how!
In the jungle, bees, like many insects, build their habitat in hollow trunks, whether alive or dead. And that's weather protection.
The importance of our work:
All over the world, bees are threatened by human activity, climate change, and ever-increasing competition.
In the jungle, 80% of plant species depend
directly from insect pollination. As a pollinating agent, the bee contributes significantly to this balance, and is therefore the essential link in the survival, evolution and reproduction of native plants.
The Maya called themselves "the inhabitants of the jungle" and lived on the basis of a deep knowledge and a way of life compatible with the conservation of the jungle for generations.
Melipones have been impacted by deforestation and competition with
imported honey bees.
This is why we are beekeepers committed to protecting the natural habitat of our melipones and apis; we regularly plant bee plants and shrubs to complement the work of our bees and thus fight against the threat.
We work closely with around a hundred families of local beekeepers in order to perpetuate the know-how of their culture and make them aware of the importance of this preservation.