Church Bees

We keep bees in the churchyard: two hives that, in a good year can yield over 50 kg of honey!

And we’ll soon be starting another Beekeeping Course, led by the ever-enthusiastic Henrik, our beekeeper.

Everything from making frames for the beehives to spinning out the honey at the end of the summer. With plenty of opportunities to get hands-on with the bees.

We’ll start with opening the hives for our first Spring inspection on Saturday 25 April.

A full programme will be available next week and posted here.

Meanwhile, if you might be interested in taking part, do send in the form below and we’ll send you more information and a link to the course website.

Back in August Henrik Rammer our beekeeper and his beekeeping team, removed 40 frames full of honey from the beehives and took them to his summer place on Ingarö to spin it out into jars.

At our Harvest Festival on 21 September we filled the sanctuary with these jars and with thanksgiving.

We auctioned some afterwards and the rest is being released for sale over coming months.

We’ll give some to wedding couples, for their honeymoon, too.

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, run training courses in beekeeping, and now we are looking forward to a great honey harvest is 2026.