Church Bees

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Beekeeping Course

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Learn how to look after our churchyard bees and harvest their honey.

All the kit you’ll need - and refreshments - provided.

Henrik Rammer will be our tutor.

Here’s the schedule:

Thursday 10 April 20.00-20.30: Zoom introduction.

Saturday 12 April 10.00-12.00: Opening up the church beehives together.

Saturday 10 May 10.00-12.00: Learning how to handle and check the bees.

Sunday 25 May 13.00-15.00: Making sure that the honey-making is underway.

Sunday 15 June 12.30-13.00: Bee-time for the congregation.

Saturday 9 August: Honey Day for all-comers! Bottling the honey at Henrik’s place on Ingarö.

We keep bees in the churchyard: two hives that, in a good year, can yield 100 kg of honey.

It all began before Covid. Back then, we helped start Stockholm Loves Pollinators - to persuade the City to manage its spaces in a pollinator-friendly way, for the sake of all of us.

Getting a beehive was the next step in raising our awareness of the crash in pollinator numbers - and fulfilled a small dream: we were half-way to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Since then, we’ve added another hive, weathered a couple of difficult winters, and are looking forward to a great summer of ‘25.

Our beekeeper is Henrik Rammer, helped out by Nick the Chaplain.

And the plan is train-up people from the congregation to be assistant apiarists.