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WATCH OUT, BEES!

BEES NEED
FLOWERS.

But will there be flowers at all?

As the world grows louder,
nature falls silent.
> STATUS REPORT
> RAINFALL: DRYING UP
> BLOOM: SHORTENING
> BEE PASTURE: NARROWING
A hand-cranked zinc honey extractor in a wooden-floored workshop, jars and hive tools on the benches around it.
EXTRACTION 1975
A modern automated stainless steel honey extractor in a white-tiled honey house, jars of amber honey lined up along the counters.
HONEY HOUSE 2025
A dense wildflower meadow of poppies, cornflowers and daisies, with butterflies and bees in flight above them.
MANY-COLOURED MEADOW, ONCE
Rows of flowering rapeseed above cracked, bare earth, with no undergrowth.
MONOCULTURE FIELD, NOW

WE PAID FOR GROWTH
WITH THE MEADOW.

ON AIR

REPORT FROM
THE GREEN
DESERT.

An endless green field. A silent land, as far as the eye can see. In late April it was still in yellow bloom. By summer the bees avoid it. Nothing holds them.

The small lake where the bees once came for water has dried up. Cracked clay remains at the bottom. No more evening frog chorus.

A heat dome closes over the forest. In midsummer the leaves of the hundred-year-old lindens shade into red. Autumn is still far off.

MEASURING POINT: 46°10'42.0"N 18°20'14.7"E RECORDING

LOG: 2005

Rainfall steady. Black locust flow: 14 days. Colony loss: 3%.

LOG: 2015

Could rain any day now… Black locust flow: 9 days. Colony loss: 17%.

LOG: 2025

Prolonged drought. Black locust flow: 3 days. Colony loss: 33%.

LOG: 2035 [NO DATA]

Will there still be bees?

A wooded hillside. Near the summit lindens have discoloured to pale, rust-brown patches; lower on the slope other lindens still carry silvery foliage, among green forest
On the linden groves at the top of Hármas-hegy the crowns show a reddish discolouration instead of their usual silver. Lower down they are still silver.

EVEN SO

The harvest shrinks. The wonder does not.

We go out to the apiary. Every spring, for 16 years.

Because seeing the bees again is the best moment of the year.

Because the smell of an opened hive is heady.

Because extraction day is a feast day.

Because a jar of honey means something went right.

An opened blue hive with a foundation frame leaned against it, bees drawing comb on it
In a good flow the foundation is drawn out fast.

PROTOCOL

We are organic beekeepers.

We do not migrate our bees. We do not take their honey beyond the surplus. We do not treat them with synthetic chemicals. We respect them, and we care for them as their nature requires.

[THEY STAY PUT] [THEY LIVE ON THEIR OWN HONEY] [WE TREAT THEM GENTLY]
A honey bee with a yellow pollen pellet on its hind leg resting on the hive roof
End of winter. The sun has warmed the hive roof. A returning bee rests there.

EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE

„A jó méhész mindig a méhek javára téved.”

A good beekeeper always errs in the bees' favour.

HONEY STORES / COLONY
SURPLUS
DANGER ZONE
SURVIVAL MINIMUM
WE ARE HERE

CALM

The colony's honey stores are ample, and will comfortably last until spring.

[RESPONSIBLY MINDED BEEKEEPING]

OUR HONEY

THE CHEMISTRY OF SUNLIGHT, FLOWER AND BEE

Everything we sell comes from our own apiary and from nowhere else.

We do not manufacture honey. Nature decides when it comes and how much.What you see here is not a product catalogue. This is what the year brought.It cannot be replaced; the next one will carry the taste of a different year.

Acacia (black locust) honey

The scent is discreetly floral, the taste soft and silky, with no particular aftertaste. It does not overpower other flavours, so it is good in tea, in coffee, in lemonade, and even in baking. Its high fructose content keeps it clear and liquid for a long time.

  • ORGANIC CERTIFICATE
  • LIGHT YELLOW
  • SILKY AND MILD
  • CRYSTALLISATION: MINIMAL
  • MAY
  • SZALATNAK
Acacia (black locust) honey — sizes and prices
Combination Size Price Qty Subtotal
Acacia (black locust) honey 950 g 3 400 Ft

unit price: 3 579 Ft/kg

Forest wildflower honey, spring harvest

Its base comes from the slightly tart aromas of hawthorn, wild cherry and dogwood, rounded out by the fine tones of flowering ash. The whole is soft and fruity all the same. Its acacia content keeps it liquid for a long time – unlike most spring honeys.

  • MEDIUM-LIGHT YELLOW
  • WILDFLOWER, FRUITY
  • CRYSTALLISATION: SLOW
  • APRIL–MAY
  • PÜSPÖKSZENTLÁSZLÓ
Forest wildflower honey, spring harvest — sizes and prices
Combination Size Price Qty Subtotal
Forest wildflower honey, spring harvest 950 g 3 400 Ft

unit price: 3 579 Ft/kg

Forest wildflower honey, summer harvest

Linden blossom dominates. Its intense, slightly tart taste leaves a fresh feeling in the throat. A woody, fruity tone of sweet chestnut and wild blackberry holds it together, while the meadow flowers come through as a spice.

  • AMBER
  • TART LINDEN, SPICY
  • CRYSTALLISATION: MEDIUM
  • MAY–JUNE
  • PÜSPÖKSZENTLÁSZLÓ
Forest wildflower honey, summer harvest — sizes and prices
Combination Size Price Qty Subtotal
Forest wildflower honey, summer harvest 950 g 3 400 Ft

unit price: 3 579 Ft/kg

Fennel honey

A dark honey turning towards red. Its taste is marked by anise, paired with a roasted walnut finish. It can be recommended beside strong cheeses, and is worth trying on its own. Fennel is rarely sown, so it is not always on our list.

  • DARK, TURNING RED
  • ANISE, WALNUT FINISH
  • CRYSTALLISATION: MEDIUM
  • JULY–AUGUST
  • HOSSZÚHETÉNY
Fennel honey — sizes and prices
Combination Size Price Qty Subtotal
Fennel honey 950 g 3 400 Ft

unit price: 3 579 Ft/kg

Tasting trio

Three different honeys from our range, in quarter-kilo jars, in a natural cardboard box. As a gift, or if you would like to taste several at once.

  • GIFT IDEA
  • IN A NATURAL BOX
  • 3 × 250 G
  • 4 VARIATIONS
Tasting trio — sizes and prices
Combination Size Price Qty Subtotal
1. acacia, spring, summer 750 g 3 800 Ft
2. acacia, summer, fennel 750 g 3 800 Ft
3. acacia, spring, fennel 750 g 3 800 Ft
4. spring, summer, fennel 750 g 3 800 Ft

unit price: 5 067 Ft/kg

YOUR ORDER

CONTACT
COLLECTION

Where

Where we deliver

  • Hosszúhetény
  • Pécs
  • Komló

…and the villages between them

We can deliver from 10 items.

When would suit you? (tick as many as you like)

Let me know after the extractions, and once more before winter sets in.

This is not a final order. We will be in touch shortly.

FROM FRAME TO JAR

A honey-filled, wax-capped frame in the uncapping machine
ONE FRAME ≈ 2 KG

  1. HARVEST

    We lift the frames once the flow is over, the bees have ripened the honey and capped it with wax.

  2. EXTRACTION

    In a clean, modern honey house, with a stainless-steel uncapping machine and a self-reversing extractor, we work the frames while they are still hive-warm, with no artificial pre-drying.

  3. STORAGE

    After a moderate straining we keep the honey in sealed 10-litre cans, in a room kept away from light. The small can is what lets us warm a crystallised batch only once, immediately before jarring. That warming is done at 35 °C, the same temperature as the inside of the hive.

  4. FILLING

    The honey runs through a medium filter into the filling tank, and after a few hours of settling it goes into freshly washed jars dried at 60 °C, one at a time, each standing on a gram scale.

  5. LABEL

    We design the labels ourselves, print them on recycled paper, trim them to size on a guillotine where that is needed, and stick every single one on by hand.

THE BEEKEEPER'S LOG

Scenes from our apiary

> Season count: 16

We started with two swarms

ONLY IN AUTUMN
ONLY IN AUTUMN

> Next season: 17

Already getting ready

THE WHOLE LOG

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Not just bees

HARVEST ALERT

(No spam. Nature dictates this newsletter, not the marketing department.)

We write after the extraction, and once more before winter sets in.

A row of beehives painted blue, dark green, white and red along a line of trees, on a grassy clearing. Patches of low sunlight and long shadows alternate across the grass; to the right, sky shows between the trees
On an August evening, the last of the sun casts long shadows over an apiary settling in for the night.
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