About ApiCare
Three parts. One promise.
ApiCare is a smallholder honey collective from Sikkim, India's only fully organic state. Three things make this work — a story, the people behind it, and a traceability system that makes every claim independently verifiable.
Section 01
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Our Story
We started in 2020 with a single hypothesis: if you could verify exactly who produced each jar of honey, the middleman becomes optional. Five years and 125 beekeepers later, that hypothesis became a company.
How we got from twelve beekeepers in one village to a recognised RAMP partner working across four districts of Sikkim — and what we are building next.
Section 02
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The Beekeepers
125 verified beekeepers across four districts. The ones you meet by name on this site chose to share their story. The rest of the collective stays unnamed — by their choice, and ours.
We follow the principle of free, prior, and informed consent for any decision about how a beekeeper's name, photo, or story is used. This is what taking smallholder partnerships seriously actually looks like, beyond the marketing language of traceability.
Section 03
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Traceability
Every jar carries a unique code. Scan it and you see the beekeeper, the harvest date, the lab results, and the village it came from — all timestamped, all signed, all independently verifiable.
We built FarmLedger to make this work for ApiCare honey. Eventually we want it to work for any smallholder agricultural product where the producer has been priced out of their own value chain.