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20th May is celebrated all around the globe as World Bee Day and we could not be(e) happier about it!

While those little buzzers provide us with the sweetest golden nectar - honey, their importance is so much wider than that:

‼️ 90% of wild flowering plant species, 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural products depend on pollinators such as bees, butterflies, bats and hummingbirds. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity! ‼️

However, whilst the survival of the bees is directly connected to the survival of humankind and the whole ecosystem, the bees are under threat! Due to human impacts, the extinction rates of different pollinators are 100 to 1000 times higher than normal!

So it is very important for all of us to help and protect all pollinators, including bees!

What can a we do?

🐝 Fill your windowstills, balconies and gardens with plants - better yet if wild native plants!

🐝 Avoid using pesticides, fungicides or herbicides with those plants!

🐝 Make a bee drinking station - put fresh water in a shallow bowl with stones and sticks in your garden.

🐝 Do not poison the bees - they might be a hassle, but bees never attack unless feeling threatened. Let them enjoy your plants and you will be fine.

🐝 Raise awareness about the bees with others - the decline of bees affects us all.

🐝 Support sustainable agricultural practices - buy your honey and vegetables from local organic farmers!

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We have been keeping bees since 2016 - our first hive Sinan brought as a birthday present to Helena. She loved it and we have been growing ever since.

We are more invested than ever in beekeeping and while we expand year by year, we still feel very strongly about sustainable and bee-friendly practices in our work and it remains most important for us to harvest honey of the highest quality.

Please enjoy the small photo-journey through our beekeeping history and share with us your best, strangest and most wonderful bee and honey stories!

🍯🍯🍯We have been keeping bees since 2016 - our first hive Sinan brought as a birthday present to Helena. She loved it and we have been growing ever since:

2016 - birthday hive grew into four hives and 18 kilos of honey

2017 - a year of learning from mistakes and successes of our four hives finished with 70 kilos of honey

2018 - this year we moved our bees to the rooftop, expanded quite a lot and harvested much more honey - we had spare honey to sell!

2019 - we moved half of the bees to our new apiary in between Abu Qash mountains and were surprised to have two distinctly different honey tastes - we now have intensely sweet Ramallah honey and lighter aromatic Abu Qash, both have their fans among our customers! Our 35 bee-families blessed us with more than 300 kilos of honey, that was sold out by late January!

2020 - though it has been difficult to reach both apiaries amongst the pandemic and movement restrictions and we had more swarming than we aimed for, the bees are looking good and honey is gathering. Cannot wait until the harvest in July-August!

We are more invested than ever in beekeeping and while we grow year by year, we still feel very strongly about sustainable and bee-friendly practices in our work and it remains most important for us to harvest honey of the highest quality.

Please enjoy the small photo-journey through our beekeeping history and share with us your best, strangest and most wonderful bee and honey stories! ... See MoreSee Less