Church Bees

We keep bees in the churchyard: two hives that, in a good year, and this year’s honey harvest is complete and has now resulted in about 50 kg of golden delicious!

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 will be released for sale over the next few 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, and are looking forward to a great summer of ‘25.