“This is brutal,” snaps Toni Fernández, literally licking his fingers to savor the drops of a…

“This is brutal,” snaps Toni Fernández, literally licking his fingers to savor the drops of a freshly harvested earthy honey from the hive. “You can really smell the floral aroma,” adds this veteran beekeeper while pointing out the influence of temperature and vegetation on the flavor. In this case, the hint of orange blossom floods the syrup whose designation of origin is not a remote rural ecosystem, but one of the central neighborhoods of Valencia. Because here, the bees are no longer just friendly or feared visitors busy extracting this amber nectar, but neighbors with residency cards in different parts of this city.