HoneyVeda

Kashyap Joshi and Hardik Joshi are Season 2's most environmentally committed brother-founders two siblings from Gujarat who began beekeeping as a personal weekend hobby rooted in their interest in sustainable agriculture, discovered the commercial and environmental opportunity in India's honey market, and built a brand mission around harvesting honey without harming bees using traditional and ethical apiculture practices. They have trained over 200 farmers and tribal members in beekeeping. The farmer and tribal training programme is HoneyVeda's most socially significant non-revenue activity creating sustainable livelihoods in rural India by teaching communities to maintain bee colonies, produce honey, and participate in HoneyVeda's supply chain as independent beekeepers.

HoneyVeda is India's first honey brand to explicitly position its products on cruelty-free, bee-welfare-focused apiculture producing raw, unprocessed, unheated, single-flora and multi-flora honeys sourced from across India, preserving the unique flavour, aroma, and therapeutic properties of each regional honey variety. It generates single-vegetable honey (munka), preserving the peculiar flavour, purity, and perfume of exceptionally therapeutic honey in its most natural state.