Beekeeping is like running a business entity with a simple and solid management system. It consists of a factory with thousand of workers, your honey worker bees and yourself on top of the organization and concurrently holding the positions of factory, marketing and sales manager, and maybe the finance and administration manager too.
As a business, your objective might be to produce and sell quality honey. Honey has been consumed by human since long ago and is very valuable with a lot of benefits. The use of honey has a very long history not only as a nutritious food but also as other meanings that reflects its significance in cultures and religions.
The quality of honey depends on many factors which are basically related to the source of nectar or floral source. Other factors that determine the quality of honey is processing and packaging. The floral source determines the taste and aroma of honey as well as its water content and clarity. Based on its floral source honey can be derived from specific flower nectars or from unspecified origins, or blended after honey collection.
Most of the available honey sold in the market is blended honey or a mixture of several floral sources with different flavor, color, density and various area of origin. You can also find polyfloral honey or wildflower honey which is derived from the nectar of several flower types. Therefore you may find some inconsistency of this type of honey from season to season in its taste, aroma and flavor, depending on which flower is more dominant.
If you wish to produce monofloral honey, which is collecting honey that is derived from the nectar of a single type of flower, you need to manage that your honey bees has access to only one type of flower, which is quite a difficult task to do. As a matter of fact, you can not control all your bees, some will collect nectar from other flowers, and there is a great possibility that your monofloral honey may contain a small amount of nectar from other flower types.
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