Church Bees

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

Our first hive is thriving, and we have just installed a new colony in our second hive.

Henrik Rammer is our beekeeper and currently he is running a beginners’ course here at the church to train others to look after our hives - or start beekeeping for themselves.

For everyone we have two events coming up:

Meet the Bees on Sunday 15 June, 12.30-13.00, after the Eucharist. Grab a cup of coffee and come out into the garden to get hands-on with the hives. Protective clothing provided!

Honey Day on Saturday 9 August out at Henrik’s waterside home on Ingarö, to spin and jar the honey - and have a lovely time in the sun. Bring a picnic!

More details to follow.

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.