Beekeeping is not exactly an everyday profession or activity for young people. However, I myself was enticed to working with bees after my very first contact with them. Beekeeping therefore represents my way of life ever since 1992, when I started with two bee colonies. Today I have 300 colonies. Although my parents assist me in my work, apiculture is not our family tradition, so I had to start from scratch. I simply became so enthralled with bees and everything associated with them that I wished to work with bees on a professional basis. In 1997 I also started to transport bees to various regions of Slovenia. With three transport units (a truck and two containers) I frequently rellocate 160 colonies. In addition to making various sorts of honey, I also produce pollen, beeswax, propolis, and each spring I also sell a couple of colonies. More »
Honey is a dense and crystallized foodstuff produced by bees. It is created from different sources: from flower nectar or other extracts from living plant parts or from different kinds of honeydew. The bees bring the basic material into the beehive, where they process it and add the extract from their glands, condense it and then store it in covered cells of the comb. More »
In Slovenia we foster our indigenous Carniola bee breed (Apis mellifera carnica Poll.), which lives in a community we refer to as bee colony. More »
Cosmetics is very important in all cultures and even in Antiquity, honey and milk were used as beauty accessories. More »
BEEKEEPING Grega Lužar
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Honey is a valued food and remedy from old times, it is the product of bees which can be said to contain a piece of unspoiled nature, it was praised by Homer and Democritus, and Pythagoras once said: If I hadn`t eaten honey, I would have died forty years ago.
