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The new year started and it feels like a new decade. Let's be(e) positive about the future and make sure we live as sustainable as possible. Care, Dare & Share!

7 December is the day of "St Ambrosius", the Saint for bees, honey, beekeepers. My colleague beekeeper Lois has this beautiful wooden Ambrosius statue:

A photo of my first bee-love:

"Power Food 4 Powder Sports" - eat honey and ski better! :-)

The work the earthworms do for our soil keeps our world alive! They make land, as if by magic, more fertile. Well, "magic"...: basically earthworms churn up the soil and mix up the nutrients upon which many millions of species depend.

In 2019, the month May was still like winter. There was no real springtime before a hot and sunny sommer. June, July and August were blooming and booming for the bees. And, luckily enough, autumn has been treating the bees very well this year too! October is beautiful!

National Geographic brings the (honey)bees more often under the attention and we thought this link is worth sharing:

Jungvölker werden früh im Sommer als "Ableger" gemacht (previous blogpost) und bei der Honigernte als "Kehrschwarm" gemacht. Am 3. August 2019 sind 2 neue Völker entstanden! Wir haben jeweils ungefähr 3 Kilo Bienen in einer neuer Beute "gekehrt" (mit Vorsicht!) und dazu eine neue Königin gehängt. Wir freuen uns auf die zwei "Geburten"!

"H-Day" is the kind of "D-Day" for the bees and the beekeepers. It is a major event in the bee year; a huge operation. The Honey Harvest. This year, the harvest took place on Saturday 3 August. The weather was fine, the positions of the moon and the stars seemed fine. The bees were mellow that day and we...

The best honey! "Engls Honey", the 2019 edition - for sale now!