Country

Lebanon

Lebanon's honey landscape is shaped by extreme changes in altitude over short distances, allowing beekeepers to move colonies from coastal citrus forage to mountain polyfloral and forest harvests. A 2026 national survey describes a sector centered overwhelmingly on honey production, while the country's most distinctive landscape product is cedar honeydew honey from isolated Cedrus libani forests. Slow Food identifies Barouk/Shuf, Tannourine and Bcharreh as the principal forests where cedar isolation can support this honey. The native Syrian honey bee Apis mellifera syriaca remains an important relationship, though imported lineages are also present.