Photo collage with highlights of the beekeeping year 2025

Honey Processing Room Construction

After an intense winter of construction, it was ready just in time for the first honey harvest!

The honey room as a building site with old walls and trestles

Romi plastering a wall in the future honey room

Matthias in the finished honey room with extractor and bottling tank

Beekeeping Work

After years of tinkering and figuring things out, our beekeeping work ran really smoothly this year. It was also the first year we finally had more than enough of our own beeswax... which meant we didn't have to be stingy with foundation sheets for our bees anymore.

Empty honey supers and frames on a work table next to the hives

A stack of foundation sheets made from our own beeswax

Matthias in his bee suit pulling a frame from the hive

Volcano-red hives in the orchard meadow in spring

Romi holding a comb full of bees above the hive

Swarm Season

Watching a bee swarm is always a spectacle. This year we caught a particularly large swarm in our own garden. The colony developed really well and went into winter strong.

A large swarm of bees hanging from a branch

Romi in a bee suit catching a swarm in the garden

Honey Harvest

All in all, we had a good harvest in 2025. The spring wasn't quite as strong due to weather conditions, but we were really happy with the summer bloom, forest & bloom honey, and plenty of forest honey again.