PRODUCTS

Joseph G. Lelinho
Hilltop Honey LLC

• Began keeping Honeybees in August, 1995
• Past Treasurer over 10 Years with Essex County Beekeepers Society
• Past President for 3 terms ECBS
• Current NJ State Representative, Mid-Atlantic Apiculture & Research Extension Consortium (MAAREC)
• 2011 – Began Commercial Beekeeping:
• Offering Renewable Annual Leases to Major Businesses, Hospitals, Environmental and Science Ctr’s. as well as residential clients to install and maintain honeybee colonies on their property.

Accomplishments

• Various Blue Ribbons & “Best in Divisions” as well as The Robert A Hughes Award at New Jersey Beekeepers Assoc. Honey Competitions
• 2011 “Best in Show”, NJ State Fair, Augusta, Light Honey
• Started and managed the first and only “Short Course Training Field” a 70 Acre tract Owned by Essex County, offered to Graduates of the Short Course for the first year of Field Training

Newspapers

• Caldwell Progress: “Local Beekeepers Honey Best in State” picture
• New York Times, “A Parasite Devastates Bees and Farmers Are Worried” picture
• Star Ledger, (Front Page) “NJ Honeybees Feel The Sting” color picture
• Star Ledger “A Honey of a Side Vocation” color picture
• Star Ledger “Why Jersey City’s Abuzz” color picture

Television

• Good Day New York, WB 11 New York & Cable News Networks
• National Television: Katie Couric Show, “The Plight of the Honeybee”

Presentations & Lectures

• Princeton University: Summer Students “The Queen and Her City” (6 consecutive years)
• Princeton: Luncheon Lecture to Staff, “The Ripening of Nectar to Honey”
• Lunch & Learns, and various other Demonstrations for each Business Client
• Teach “Honey Harvesting” in Annual Short Course for a several years
• Eastern Apiculture Society 2017: “Big Business and the Little Bee” & “Rooftop Hives”

Published Papers

• Honored to Co-Author a published study with Dr. I Pelczer & Dr. D Pearlman of Princeton University, “Is it the Real Thing, or is it Adulterated or Contaminated? Quantitative Analysis of Honey by High-Sensitivity NMR”