At Home With His Honey
Joseph Lelinho held a demonstration at his North Caldwell home, where he keeps close to a million bees.
A couple of yards from the Hilltop Reservation along Courter Street in North Caldwell sits the house of Joseph Lelinho, the local leading expert on beekeeping and honey making. On a sun-drenched Saturday, Lelinho schooled a captivated crowd on everything they ever wanted to know about the secret life of bees. Well, almost everything, anyway. “This year we’re having a great year here in New Jersey,” said Lelinho, owner and operator of Hilltop Honey. “We’ve had losing years for past several years. This is the first year we have not had a loss.” Lelinho who has been keeping bees for the past 17 years, went on to explain the fragile and intricate process by which we humans come to enjoy the sweet and sticky product of the hardworking honey …
