Production beehives can be sedentary, that is when they stay throughout the whole year in the same site or nomadic with displacements in the towns of the Lunigiana area, for the whole flowering period of interest; however, the sites have to be located within the territory identified above. Anyhow, when the harvesting starts the superhives have to be rigorously empty.

The superhives have to be extracted after the bees have been drawn away from them with a method that preserves the product quality; the use of repellent substances is banned.

To benefit from the Protected Designation of Origin, the honey has to be extracted and processed with the following modalities:

the establishments used for honey extraction, processing and preservation have to be within the towns of the Lunigiana area, extraction has to be carried out with centrifugal honey separators, filtration has to be done with a filter that is permeable to the featuring elements of honey, after its filtration the honey has to be placed in containers to settle.