Pecka honeyA whole meadow in a jar

Honey is nature's most honest product — it cannot be hurried and it cannot be faked. Željko Simić keeps bees in Pecka, and the honey they spin carries an exact impression of this place: the meadows, the forests and the wild flowers growing within sight of the springs of the Sana.

What there is depends on the season and the pollination — as nature gives, so it is. That is the whole point: real honey is not a constant, identical product off a shelf but a reflection of one particular year, one flowering, one summer's weather. Buy honey from Željko and you are buying a piece of that year in Pecka.

And the bees are quiet keepers of this entire ecosystem — buying local honey supports them and the country they pollinate.