Melvea Local Honey Discovery

Citation-backed honey producer discovery by place or varietal.

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    Citation-backed honey producer discovery by place or varietal. Free, no auth.

    How to connect

    How to connect Melvea Local Honey Discovery to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://mcp.melvea.com

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect Melvea Local Honey Discovery to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://mcp.melvea.com

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect Melvea Local Honey Discovery to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://mcp.melvea.com

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (4)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    find_local_producersFind local honey producers near a specific place, optionally filtered by honey varietal. Requires a place name in `near` — never call this tool without one. Returns producer name, location, distance, declared honey types, and contact channels (website, etc.) where listed, ordered by distance. Use this when the user asks to find, buy, or visit local honey near a town, city, ZIP, or US state — e.g. 'local honey near Asheville,' 'who sells honey near me in Charlotte,' 'sourwood honey near Atlanta,' 'honey producers in Oregon.' Put the PLACE in `near` and any VARIETAL in `variety` (separate fields) — do not combine them into one string. US state names (e.g. 'Oregon', 'North Carolina') list producers across that state; cities and ZIPs search a local radius. Named sub-state regions (e.g. 'Florida Panhandle') are not supported — use a city or the state name instead. Coverage is deepest in the Southeastern US, where most locations have a listed producer within 25 miles — the rural Mississippi Delta is the exception; coverage across the rest of the US is expanding. Don't use this for general honey questions (what is sourwood honey, health benefits, recipes) — it only returns directory listings, not knowledge. If no producer is listed nearby, the tool returns an honest empty result with a coverage note; relay that rather than inventing producers.
    get_producerGet the full directory profile for one specific producer by its slug, including location, declared honey types, contact channels, and verification status. Use this after find_local_producers (or search) when the user wants more detail on a particular listing. Don't use this to browse or search — it requires an exact producer slug.
    searchSearch the Melvea local honey directory by free-text query and return matching producers as a list of results (id, title, url). Designed for ChatGPT Deep Research and Company Knowledge. Use for any local-honey discovery query that names or implies a place; the tool parses place and varietal from the query. Returns an honest empty list when nothing matches — never fabricate. Pair with fetch to retrieve full producer detail.
    fetchRetrieve the full Melvea record for one producer by id, returning name, location, declared honey types, contact info, verification status, and profile URL. Use after search to pull complete detail on a result. For richer Deep Research answers, fetch the top several search results rather than just one, so varietal and contact detail are populated across the set.