Producers
Nutrinest / BeeTalk Local Honey
Beekeeper · Honey producer and retailer · Humane beehive-relocation service · Bee-conservation and education provider
Singapore
Nutrinest is a Singapore-based, founder-led beekeeping and bee-conservation enterprise run by Xavier Tan. It rehomes bee colonies rather than exterminating them, maintains bee gardens in Singapore, offers public education, and sells honey under the BeeTalk line. Several named BeeTalk honeys come from apiaries or hives in Malaysia, so Singapore should not be treated as the harvest origin for those products.
About the Producer
A little history
Xavier Tan began offering humane hive-removal services in 2014. Nutrinest was a one-person operation that combined beekeeping, educational workshops, hive relocation, and honey sales.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
Nutrinest follows a founder-led urban beekeeping and conservation model. It offers non-destructive bee-hive removal, relocates rescued colonies to managed bee gardens, runs tours and workshops, and sells honey. The operation includes bee gardens in Singapore and markets product-specific honey from hives and apiaries in Malaysia.
Singapore
Nutrinest's official website identifies its work as Singapore bee conservation and describes local bee-garden activity; CNA calls it a Singapore operation.
Sembawang, Singapore
Nutrinest lists Sembawang as one of its bee-garden locations. CNA reported an apiary at The Ashram in Sembawang.
Orchard Road, Singapore
Nutrinest lists Orchard Road among its bee gardens; CNA documented a Trigona hive maintained by Xavier Tan at Temasek Shophouse's rooftop garden.
Jurong Town Hall, Singapore
Listed by Nutrinest as one of four Singapore bee-garden locations.
Mandai Rainforest Resort, Singapore
Listed by Nutrinest as one of four Singapore bee-garden locations.
Malaysia
Nutrinest's BeeTalk product pages place the hives/apiary for Wild Rain Forest, Tea Tree, Bitter Gourd, Wild Cinnamon, Trigona Berry, and Trigona Gold honeys in Malaysia.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
Wild Rain Forest Honey
Floral source: Tree flowers in tropical rainforest (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia forest
Origin detail: Country
The product page says the honey is produced by Apis cerana, with the hive located in a Malaysia forest; it says the bees forage mostly from tropical-rainforest tree flowers.
Tea Tree Honey
Floral source: Tea tree flowers (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia forest
Origin detail: Country
The product page says an Apis cerana hive is under wild tea trees in a Malaysia forest and that bees forage mostly from tea tree flowers.
Wild Bitter Gourd Honey
Floral source: Wild bitter gourd flowers (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia forest
Origin detail: Country
The product page says Apis cerana hives are among wild bitter-gourd bushes in a Malaysia forest and that bees forage mostly from bitter-gourd flowers.
Wild Cinnamon Honey
Floral source: Cinnamon-tree flowers (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia forest
Origin detail: Country
The product page says an Apis cerana hive is located under a cinnamon tree in a Malaysia forest and that bees forage mostly from cinnamon-tree flowers.
Trigona Berry Honey
Floral source: Honeydew associated with aphids and flower pollen (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia apiary
Origin detail: Country
The product page says the honey is harvested from Trigona hives kept in Nutrinest's apiary in Malaysia and attributes its taste to dew collected from aphids and flower pollen.
Trigona Gold Honey
Floral source: Honeydew associated with aphids and flower pollen (producer claim)
Documented origin: Malaysia apiary
Origin detail: Country
The product page says the honey is harvested from Trigona hives kept in Nutrinest's apiary in Malaysia and attributes its taste to dew collected from aphids and flower pollen.
People
People connected to the work
- Xavier Tan Founder, owner, beekeeper, and public-facing operator
Practices
How they work
- Humane/non-destructive hive removal and relocation rather than pesticide extermination.
- Managed bee gardens are used for rehomed colonies and public education.
- For several Apis cerana BeeTalk honeys, honey is harvested after the producer considers it mature, then extracted, filtered, and bottled without a further water-evaporation step.