Honey is a nutritious, pure and natural health tonic, which is a gift of nature. Bee-keeping is an eco–friendly, income generating business done as cottage industry. This helps the local people to increase their income by selling it to Santhigiri .
Honey is also being produced from a small bee-keeping farm attached to the Santhigiri Herbal Garden at Pothencode and at some of the branch ashrams.
Honey, being an important ingredient in some Ayurveda and Siddha medicines, the produce of the bee-keeping farm is supplied to the Santhigiri Vaidyasala.
There are plans to upscale this project in the near future.
