The Beekeepers
125 beekeepers. The ones you meet here, chose to be here.
A beekeeper's name and face on a global e-commerce site is a permanent thing. We do not publish either without explicit consent — collected in person, in their language, with the right to withdraw at any time.
The 1 profile below is a beekeeper who asked to be visible. The other 124 are equally part of the collective; their identities stay between them and us.
Named Profiles
One beekeeper who chose to share their story.
Zitlang, East Sikkim
The Collective
124 beekeepers across Sikkim — by their choice, unnamed here.
The rest of the collective participates without a public profile. They keep hives. They sell to ApiCare. They receive the same prices, the same training, and the same agreements as the named beekeepers — but their identities do not appear on this site.
We track who they are, where they work, and what they harvest. We share that information with auditors and partners under formal agreements. We do not publish it.
That is the default we operate under. A handful of beekeepers may, in time, ask to be visible. Most will not. Either is fine.
125
Verified beekeepers,
across four districts of Sikkim
A note on consent
We follow the principle of free, prior, and informed consent — usually shortened to FPIC — for any decision about how a beekeeper's name, photo, or story is used in public.
What that means in practice: nothing about a beekeeper appears on this site without their explicit agreement, given in person, in their own language, with a clear understanding of where the page will appear and what permanence on the internet means. Any beekeeper can ask us to remove their profile at any time, and we will do so within twenty-four hours. The named beekeepers above have signed a consent form that documents all of this.
We think this is what taking smallholder partnerships seriously actually looks like — beyond the marketing language of traceability.