Church Bees

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

And this year’s honey harvest has begun!

On Saturday 9 August Henrik 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.

There’s more to do, yet, but the good news is that there is plenty of honey this year and the first jars should be available in a couple of weeks’ time.

We’ll be saving some for our Harvest Thanksgiving and Auction on Sunday 21 September.

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

And some will be for sale.

Watch this space!

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.