Producers
Apicultores Miel Real del Triunfo (ART)
Honey producer cooperative · Beekeeping producer organization
Jaltenango de la Paz, Ángel Albino Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico
Not publicly established in the consulted sources.
ART is a small-scale honey producers’ organization in Chiapas, Mexico, closely linked to the coffee cooperative Campesinos Ecológicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH). Its members are mainly CESMACH coffee farmers who keep Apis mellifera bees on diversified coffee farms in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. ART supports its members and helps bring their honey to market.
About the Producer
A little history
Peer-reviewed research identifies ART as CESMACH’s sister, or parallel, beekeeping cooperative. One source gives its official founding date as 2018, while a separate 2020 study says CESMACH members created Miel Real del Triunfo in 2019 to sell honey. The conflicting dates remain unresolved without organizational or registry evidence.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
ART is a producer cooperative that supports member beekeepers and markets their honey in partnership with CESMACH. It provides technical and material support, along with commercial connections. In 2019, its honey was reportedly sold in bulk to one buyer, while some members also sold honey locally.
Jaltenango de la Paz, Ángel Albino Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico
ART and CESMACH are reported to have their facilities in Jaltenango de la Paz; the locality is in the municipality of Ángel Albino Corzo.
Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Chiapas, Mexico
Most ART producers are reported to live in municipalities in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains. Study participants managed bees on diversified coffee farms, generally with apiaries close to coffee plots or milpas. This is group-level production geography, not a provenance claim for every jar or lot.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
ART cooperative honey (no varietal or retail product name established)
Floral source: Not publicly specified in the consulted sources.
Documented origin: Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Chiapas, Mexico
Origin detail: Region
The ART study states that most ART producers live in municipalities in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains and that ART's beekeeper members produced honey. It does not establish a floral source, a single harvest locality, or a lot-specific provenance for a named specimen.
Practices
How they work
- ART members in the study managed Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) in diversified coffee-farm systems, often alongside maize and other crops.
- ART calls its honey “agroecological,” while the studied source expressly reports that ART held no sustainability certificates at that time.
- Among the 25 beekeepers studied in 2018–2019, most apiaries were stationary; three producers moved hives annually to lower elevations. In higher-altitude apiaries, the usual honey harvest was March–May.
- Participating farmers reported retaining or avoiding excessive early pruning of shade trees because pruning could reduce floral resources for bees; some also planted trees or shrubs to diversify forage.