Technical Excursions

This tour starts in the city of Bergen at the westcoast of Norway. On the journey we will pass some of the famous Norwegian Fjords, the moutains and of course beekeepers.The ferry takes us from Norway to the northern part of Denmark where we shall be visiting beekepers where heather provides one of the honey specialities.

VINDFLØY BYBIGÅRD Bergen

Urban Beekeeping in central Bergen. Manuel Hempel, who is a biologist and originally from Germany, has found his passion for placing beehives on various buildings in the center of Bergen. The first stop will be at the Edward Grieg hall. Bergen concert hall. Here you get an insight into Manuel's work. Manuel also has a spectacular apiary high up on the Fløibanen where you have a spectacular view over the entire center of Bergen

Lyngheisenteret

The heath center at Lygra in Nordhordland is a national and international knowledge center that protects the heath landscape through active farming, conveys traditions and gives you great experiences. Here you can walk on prepared paths in a historic landscape, as it has been on the coast for 5,000 years. In this landscape, the conditions are excellent for beer production and here you harvest the distinctive heather honey, which is available in different variations.

Prekestol honning

The Mission Impossible World's most spectacular view can be found in Ryfylke. Tom Cruise played here in his last Mission Impossible film. Do you manage the impossible to reach the top. Here you will meet Bjørn Reidar Larsen and the local beekeeping team, who will show off their unique beekeeping experience in the natural lakes and the spectacular Lysefjord.

Vehus Bigård

Norway's largest beehive Ready for spring 2024. Here you can meet Jon Olav Vehus and tell him how he went to great lengths and why he wanted to build such a large beehive. Here you can see live bees and maybe have the opportunity to taste local honey as well as the opportunity to buy some gifts.

Boat from Kristiansand to Hirtshals

to be finalized later

Hotel

to be finalized later

Jammerbugt Biavl

Our first stop in Denmark is at Jammerbugt Biavl, run by Frank Nielsen. Here we are close to the North Sea, so the conditions can be quite harsh, but some very nice heather honey can be produced. Frank has around 100 hives and produces 50 nucs yearly. Frank also has a full-time job, so everything has to be planned well. Focus is on honey yield and time consumption so most of the production is sold as bulk.

Gjøl Bigård

The next visit is to Lars Bo Christensen at Gjøl Bigård, which is beautifully situated on a peninsula in the Limfjord - with sea on three sides. The apiary is run with the main emphasis on harvesting and selling flavors of pure natural honey, pollen, propolis, honey wine and as a visitor apiary, for tourists and beekeepers interested in nature and beekeeping.

Hotel

to be finalized later

Nordjysk Biavlscenter

At Poul Bach Sørensen at Nordjysk Beekeeping Center, they have more than 20 years of experience in selling beekeeping equipment - many of the products have been tested in their own apiary. "We take pride in giving our customers a good service even though we are sometimes busy". In addition to the sale of equipment, Nordjysk Beekeeping Center also offers wax melting and washing of frames.

Norddjur's Beekeeper's Association

Norddjur's Beekeeper's Association is based at Stenvad Mosebrugcenter, which is a municipally owned museum for peat digging in Djursland. The association has a teaching apiary here, where we teach our novice team in practical beekeeping and where we experiment with different operating techniques. The association has approx. 90 members, of which 25-30 are active. In addition to the practical work with the bees, we also have a number of professional and social activities during the year. Finally, we have an information apiary, where guests of Mosebruget can look inside a beehive and get lots of interesting information about the life and importance of bees. Next to the information apiary, we have an insect hotel and "The Bees´ Garden".

Tour for women beekeepers. On this two-day trip we shall visit a range of dedicated women involved in bees and beekeeping. We also meet the vikings and see the famous museum of H.C. Andersen, the world-famous Danish author.

Vindinge Herreds Beekeepers Association

Vindinge Herreds Beekeepers Association - one of the Danish Beekeepers´ Association´s local associations - was founded in 1917. The association has approx. 90 members. The aim of the association is to educate new beekeepers and to support already established beekeepers. In addition, the association is very interested in disseminating knowledge about the exciting world of bees to the public. Some of the association's female beekeepers will be present in the association's club room and school apiary. They will talk about how a local association works and show the teaching apiary with traditional troughhives, poly hives and flowhive. In addition, they will display two containers with beekeeping equipment and an extraction and processing room for honey. During the visit, members will also talk about the year's progress in the school apiary and will also review the work plan for the work over the season. Lunch, consisting of smørrebrød in the association's clubhouse

Vikingmuseum Ladby

The main attraction at the Viking Museum Ladby is the Viking Ship Grave. Also referred to as the ‘Ladby Ship’, it was discovered in 1935 along with 11 smaller graves, which contained various grave goods. Archaeological studies have established that, in or around 925 AD, the Viking ship was pulled ashore and the deceased king was then buried in it in a mound with his horses, dogs, and other precious belongings.

As you enter the burial mound and things get darker, you immediately sense the very special atmosphere of the Ladby King’s grave. The ship is almost 22 metres long and about 3 metres wide. It was built for 30-32 oarsmen and was fitted with a sail. Nothing of the sail or mast remains, but 7 rigging rings roughly in the middle of the ship along the supposed gunwale establish that the ship was seaworthy. It is estimated that the sail was 60 m2.

The prow was shaped like a dragon’s head with a main of iron curls, and the aft stern was a curved dragon’s tail. The ship’s incredibly well-preserved anchor and anchor chain, and remnants of rigging, are located at the prow. The ship also contains the remains of the horses and dogs that accompanied the king on his final voyage.

Over 600 objects or fragments of objects were found in the ship’s grave. Among the most significant objects are a silver belt buckle, pieces of a silver plate, a bronze dish, brackets and a bronze collection piece for a dog leash with gilding, as well as parts of the deceased’s distinguished clothing with, among other things, sewn-in gold threads. Other items include spurs and stirrups, a shield bump, an axe, and a bundle of 45 arrowheads. For additional informations: https://vikingemuseetladby.dk/the-ships-grave/?lang=en

Bee together

Spend an evening in Magtenbølle – a cosy small village near by Odense - together with female beekeepers from the island of Funen. You will experience:

Visit to Else Marie Kristensen and Klaus Ankerstjerne, who run Magtenbølle Honning og Mjød. Klaus is a beekeeper and brews, among other things, mead and cider from their own apples. Else Marie is, among other things, storyteller, coach and minipig breeder.

• Dinner at an old sole farm
• Mead Tasting
• Storytelling
• Exchange of experience with Funen female beekeepers

From garden to stomach -Children and bees

Odense municipality has a project where 4th graders are taught how to grow vegetables and garden. The project is called “Haver til Maver”. As part of the project, there is also teaching about bees, beekeeping and the influence of bees on nature. There are 3 gardens in Odense, and we will visit one of the gardens. Kirsten Wolffhechel is a teacher, but also a beekeeper. Kirsten has had bees for approx. 10 years and has become a teacher in one of the 3 gardens. Kirsten considers the teaching of caring for bees, and all other insects, to be a very important lesson.

Fjernvarme Fyn (district heating company), biodiversity on a power plant

Bees and biodiversity belong together. Do you want to know more about how a company, Fjernvarme Fyn, works actively with biodiversity? The company would like to invite you on a tour, where you can experience several of the green areas that have been rearranged to make room for nature. There is plenty to see, for the rescheduled approx. 200,000 square meters are distributed over 44 cadastres in Odense and the surrounding area. You will hear about the strategy behind it, the current results and gain insight into the future plans to further strengthen biodiversity. On the tour, you will be able to see some of the rare plants that now thrive on these areas – including species that are not normally found in this type of industrial area. Due to the company's focus on biodiversity, it has been designated by the Danish Beekeepers' Association as Funen's first bee-friendly company. They are very proud of that. Some of the initiators of the project will be present so that they can share their knowledge and experiences about how nature's diversity flourishes when space is created for it.

H.C. Andersen Muesum, Odense

A visit to Hans Christian Andersen’s House is a surprising and fascinating journey into the author’s creative universe – and his beloved fairy tales.

Beauty merges with imagination at the museum, where world-class architecture and spaces bring nature indoors, and provoke us to turn things on their head and speculate about today and tomorrow.

Via sound, light, space and scenery designed in collaboration with 12 international artists, in this innovative exhibition, we experience Hans Christian Andersen and his works speak to us. Our imagination is our only compass. We all create our own adventure!

Ripahonung

The owner Johanna Adolfsson will guide us at her company Ripahonung.

Ripahonung produces Swedish high-quality honey & bee pollen and spreads knowledge about the bees in a playful and pedagogical way

Swedish honey from own apiaries

RipaHoney harvests honey from its own apiaries. Ripagården is nestled in fantastic meadowland where our honey bees collect nectar from Viper's bugloss, Yellow bedstraw, Sweet yellow clover and many other meadow flowers. In the spring, some of our hives are temporarily on carefully selected rapeseed farms. We also have apiaries near forests and Linden tree avenues in nearby villages.

Linas och binas

Lina Norrsell from Linas och binas will meet up and take us on a tour to the apple orchards on Österlen.

At Linas och binas we want to offer you a honey of the best quality. We handle the honey carefully and bottle it immediately after harvest.

Our company is KRAV-certified.

At the apple orchards we will be shown and offered a taste of the traditional craft of producing apple juice, cider and other fruit beverages.

Monica Larssons Biodling - Professional queen breeder

Monica Larsson has been a beekeeper since 2009 and runs her business, Monica Larsson beekeeping, on the Bjäre Peninsula. Monica specializes in queen breeding and the bees' nutritional needs

The company consists of 550 bee colonies focusing on large-scale production of queen bees (Buckfast), pollination services and honey production, rental of bee colonies to companies, municipalities and associations and Dulcofruct bee feed sales to other beekeepers.

On the southern of Hallandsåsen in the western part of Skåne is the company Monica Larsson's beekeeping. The company is run by Sweden's first female master beekeeper approved by the Crafts Council Monica Larsson and her husband Lars Larsson. The farm and land have been in the family for 13 generations and the bees have been part of the business for over 15 years. Monica has attended a two-year university of applied sciences training in beekeeping and obtained a journeyman's certificate in 2011, as well as a master's certificate in 2024. Her interest in beekeeping began in her teens and has followed her throughout her life until today. Lars is a trained farmer.

Monica's and Lars' bees enjoy a mixture of woodland on the ridge and an open landscape with large fields below the ridge. A landscape that is very favorable for bees and honey production!

Both Monica and Lars work with the beekeeping and the farm is more alive than ever. Every year, 10 hectares of flowers are grown for bees and insects. This favors pollination around the farm.

In addition, Monica is a very famous Queen breeder.

Beekeeping equipment at Joel Svenssons Vaxfabrik

Joel Svenson Waxfabrik is a venerable family business located in northwestern Skåne, Sweden. Since 1887, we have specialized in high-quality wax products, and today the company is run by the fourth generation of pasionate family members.

Products: Beekeeping Equipment and candle raw materials.

Queen mating, water mill and teaching apiary

Denmark has a long tradition for queen mating at isolated islands and this tour goes to one of these, Orø - a short boattrip away from the mainland. On the route back we visit Tadre Mill, a old watermill with a plant-sales day and an apiary. The day ends in the teaching apiary at the local beekepers in Roskilde.

Orø bee mating station

"The art of producing queens and drones" We will visit two beekeepers on the small island of Orø in Holbæk Fjord. Orø is a pure breeding area, where Mogens Mundt produces queens and Mogens Larsen produces drones for queen breeding. We see the beehives, where drones are produced with special boards and techniques, see Mogens' little bee car (a converted Ellert) and visit his sling room.

Lunch at café Langedalgaard

Tadre Watermill

In the middle of the scenic Elverdamsdalen area, you will find Tadre Mølle. The last of a total of 13 water mills that used to exist in the Elverdamsdalen around Aastrup Estate. Tadre Mølle, which is still fully functional, today functions as a nature center and cultural history museum. We see the old water mill, a beautiful herb garden and Susanna's beehives.

Teaching apiary at Gammel Roskilde Amts Beekeepers Association

We visit a beekeeper's association near Roskilde. Sees the teaching apiary, sees equipment and teaching facilities, gets coffee and cake and a chat with the volunteers who teach and look after the teaching apiary.

Queens, professional beekeeping for pollination, vikings and beer

This trip takes us to professional beekeepers and queen breeders with focus on pollination. We will have lunch at the local brewery, Herslev Bryghus - including beer tasting - and in the afternoon we go to Sagnlandet Lejre, where you can see how a viking king lived. The day ends at the local beekeepers asociation in Roskilde.

Henrik Kjelkvist, Allan Hansen

We visit Henrik Kjelkvist and Allan Hansen, commercial beekeepers who have just over 1,300 colonies. We see the honey extraction and processing facilities and pass a few of the apiaries where the bees pollinate both conventional and organic white clover.

Herslev Brewery

Herslev Bryghus has brewed organic beer for 20 years: "Our farm brewery is built on the dream of creating fantastic beers with more naturalness and less mass production. For many years we have called it 'more nature, less industry' and that is still the case - 20 years later. For Herslev Bryghus is about having the heart with and the roots rooted in our hilly landscape. To let nature inspire surprising flavor combinations and new ways of creating beer - and to have a special respect for the surroundings we are all a part of".

Sagnlandet Lejre

In 2009, traces of the largest viking habitation in Denmark peaked out from the mud. With a little more than 60 meters from one end to the other, it’s about as long as a football field is wide, and with its rows of big, large posts, the construction has been able to support a building with up to 10 meters to the ceiling. With over 600 m2, the large King’s Hall is a unique witness of the culmination of Nordic architecture and crafts of the Viking Age.

https://sagnlandet.dk/en/denmarks-largest-viking-kings-hall/

Teaching apiary at Gammel Roskilde Amts Beekeepers Association

We visit a beekeeper's association near Roskilde. Sees the teaching apiary, sees equipment and teaching facilities, gets coffee and cake and a chat with the volunteers who teach and look after the teaching apiary.

Maries Bihantverk

Locally produced honey from apiaries in and around Malmö. We harvest often to take advantage of the flavors of the season's different flowers. At seasonal harvests, liquid freshly honey and cake honey are offered (late May, mid-July and mid-August). Our beekeeping is small-scale, a food craft and the honey is not heated but is handled carefully from hive to jar.

We also offer bee pollen, beeswax, bee sponsorship in Malmö, beeswax, lectures, workshops and honey tasting.

At the tour Marie will also take us on a mead tasting journey from her own mead and cider brewery.

Österlen Honey

We are located at Björkhaga farm outside Tomelilla in Österlen Sweden. Honey production and queen breeding is the main focus in our operation. The bees live out on 13 different apiaries from Sandhammaren in the south to Brösarp in the north.

Large beekeeping company dedicated to the production of honey, pollination service, store of beekeeping supplies and sale of honey to large supermarkets. There will be a tour of the sales room, honey packing plant and then to an orchard where the company performs pollination services.

Danish Beekeeping today and in the past. Organic beekeeping.

On this tour we will meet some of the many members of one of Denmarks largest local beekeepers associatons. We will hear about training of new beekeepers and how this is organized. Across the road we enter the Open Air Museum, Frilandsmuseet. After Lunch at a cosy restaurant nearby we drive north to visit Peter Sjøgren - an organic beekeeper with many talents.

Nordsjællandske Bivenner

Nordsjællandske Bivenner is a beekeeping association with approx. 200 members offering annual training classes of 25 “wannebee” beekeepers as well as introducing school classes and children to the life of honeybees.

Located in the beautiful Brede Park the teaching apiary is open for visits and you will hear how the association approaches training in beekeeping and how the apiary is used for that.

Open Air Museum

The Open Air Museum, Frilandsmuseet is one of the oldest and largest open air museums in the world. It contains more than 100 agricultural buildings from different parts of Denmark. The buildings are arranged as when the peasants, farmers, craftsmen or others lived there. It gives a many-sided view of the life at the countryside during the period 1650 - 1940.

There has been beekeeping at many of the farms. Today there is beekeeping at the largest farm at the museum. The volunteers in Biavlerlauget take care of the bees and pass on knowledge not only about honeybees but also wild bees. You will visit some of the buildings and meet beekeepers from Biavlerlauget.

Lunch

Lunch is included

Peter Sjøgren

Peter Sjøgren is an organic beekeeper. He harvests and sells everything the bees can produce. Of course, honey, but also beepollen (800 kg per year), propolis, beeswax, bee larvae, bee venom. Yes, even dead bees for Michelin restaurants in Copenhagen.

He delivers, among other things, propolis for diabetes type 1 research, at Rigshospitalet. And bee venom for cancer research at the Bartolin Institute, also in Copenhagen.

Peter has 8 apiaries, and approx. 130 bee colonies. Peter is a trained chef at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen. And works together with various Michelin chefs to make new things from the products of the bees.

Lindhagens Biredskap

Lindhagens Bigårdar is one of Swedens oldest beekeeping company established 1934. During the years the company has adapted to current market and today it also operates honey packaging, store for beekeeping equipment and education for beekeepers.

Lindhagen's beekeeping equipment welcomes you to our beekeeping shop, here you will find what you need for your beekeeping.

The Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, SLU

Meet The Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, SLU, campus Alnarp and the nearby research station Lönnstorp. At Alnarp, we focus on horticulture and landscape planning. The importance of people and society in the context of food production is an overarching bridge in the research. The focus on beekeepers, beekeeping and pollination can be found at the National Competence Center for Advisory Services where we work closely with people with new methods and ways of working. At the Department of Plant Biology concepts like Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management and pollination in a changing climate are explored.

At Lönnstorp, an apiary is established for applied research studies and acts as a demonstration apiary for the network of Regional Bee Health Advisors, who you also will meet and know more about at the visit.

Beekeeping in the City, children and bees. Bees for training and research. Teaching children about the value of bees and biodiversity.

Copenhagen Beekeepers Association and University of Copenhagen

We will visit the teaching apiary belonging to Copenhagen Beekeepers Association. The apiary is located at the University of Copenhagen, which means that the bees serve as training for coming beekeepers as well as for teaching and research at the University.

Here we will meet Thomas Skall, chairman of the Beekeepers Association and Annette Bruun Jensen, associated professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Science. Annettes research is among others focused on honeybee pests and diseases.

From garden to stomach, Frederiksberg Community

The school garden in Frederiksberg Garden is a place where we inspire kids to eat a more plant-based diet by teaching them to grow edible plants and how to cook delicious meals. In the garden you will see all the classic garden elements like vegetable beds, fruit trees and compost piles.

The Royal Danish Garden Society

In the almost two-hectare garden belonging to the Royal Danish Garden Society, we meet Anne Marie Sørensen, garden designer and gardener. She will take us around Restaurant Mielcke & Hurtigkarl's Cutting Garden and tell you the history of the raised bed as the Garden of the Blind. Focus is on selection of species in accordance with the microclimate; the kitchen's need for flowers, leaves, and berries; biodiversity and care of the plants. And of course there are bees too.

Bees in the classroom

At Sankt Annæ Gymnasium (primary school) in Valby, we have bees on the schedule. We will meet Jeanette Bugge, who is both a teacher and a beekeeper, so she uses the bees in her lessons. The school has a troughhive and a poly hive as well as a large greenhouse with raised beds around and a small pond. The students in 4th and 5th grade learn about bees in the subject nature/technology, they come out in small groups and take care of the bees and plants in the greenhouse. The students help to harvest the honey, which primarily is sold to students and parents at the school.

Lustgårdens Biodling, Beekeeper Christer Ledel, In Oskarström

Today, we have just over 200 beehives located around the Halland coastal landscape. We treat the honey carefully to retain all the nutrients and to produce a soft texture.

We will show our specially adapted honey facility where we extract and bottle our own honey products. We also pack our own bee pollen and sell products for beekeeping. Products that we use and like ourselves.

Agreb

Just outside Ängelholm, we run one of Sweden's largest beekeeping companies. We invite you to both honey tasting and talk about our business. We will be showcasing our modern honey facilities, machinery and technical solutions.

Pollination in greenhouses. Beekeeping without antibiotics

Visit a beekeeper specialized in vegetable pollination and get an update on Danish Bee Reserach

Bibo´s Biavl - Bo Egelunn

Bo Egelunn Nielsen is a 4th generation beekeeper and has received bees and honey with his mother's milk because he already helped his father look after the bees and process the honey as a child. Today, he runs Bibo's beekeeping together with his wife Winnie Søby. The beekeeping at Bo and Winnie consists of queen breeding and pollination of fruit and berries, canola and pumpkins. The honey, which is harvested twice a year, is sold by the glass. At Bo, among other things, we will visit Hunsballe Grønt, a nursery that specializes in the production of strawberries almost all year round. Part of the year takes place in tunnels or greenhouses where Bo's bees are active pollinators.

Aarhus University

In Denmark beekeepers rely on early detection and fast response in order to avoid the spread of American foulbrood and other diseases. Approximately one sixth of the Danish beekeepers have taken a course to recognize the signs of a disease outbreak and react accordingly. More importantly, there is a strong focus on prevention, through adequate hygiene in the apiary.

Visit Aarhus University for inspiration towards a beekeeping without any application of antibiotics.

UNESCO World Heritage, Pollination, Bees to Business and lot of equipment

Experience Stevns Klint, UNESCO heritage, meet an innovative beekeepeer and see which bee-equipment Danish beekeepers are being offered

Stevns Klint and Stevns Klint Experience

UNESCO's World Heritage list includes places that have outstanding universal value for all of humanity—sites that we must take special care of. Stevns Klint was added to this prestigious list in 2014 because it is the best place in the world to witness traces of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. The asteroid, which had for millions of years remained at a safe distance from our blue, life-filled planet, came hurtling in with such force that it brought mass death and destruction. Half of all species on the planet became extinct, including the dinosaurs. Everything on Earth was suddenly changed, and nothing would ever be the same again.

We will be guided through this story at Stevns Klint Experience – among beautiful fossils, digital games, a dinosaur skeleton, meteorites, and a massive limestone block carved from Stevns Klint. Later you will be able to see the cliff by yourself, including the famous fish-clay which is only to be seen a few places in the World

Lunch at Højeruplund near the cliff

The Green Apiary

The Green Apiary - Den Grønne Bigård - which is the company behind Bees to Business, was founded in 2000. The company is owned by Kristen Olesen, who is a trained forest technician.

With more than 35 years of experience in beekeeping, Kristen Olesen has extensive experience in keeping bees both in gardens, at companies and out in the open country.

Throughout the season, a large part of the bee colonies are rented out for various pollination tasks, primarily for white clover.

There is also production and breeding of queens, partly for their own needs and for sale to other beekeepers. Throughout the season, free-mated queens, virgin queens, queen cells and, of course, products from the bees such as honey, pollen and much more are sold.

Most recently, a collaboration model has been developed with companies called Bees to Business. This makes it possible for companies to keep bees at the company, as well as to create various events based on the bees for the company's employees or business associates.

Bihuset - The Bee House

The Bee House - Bihuset - is one of Denmark's largest suppliers of equipment to beekeepers at home and abroad. We service both professional and hobby growers with everything needed for a successful beekeeping. In our store in Tappernøje and in our webshop you will always find good offers.

The current owner – Heino Christiansen – took over Bihuset in 1994, after having worked in the company for about 10 years, where he started as an assistant after school. After finishing school, he started working full-time in the Bee House, and became a "master apprentice".

Heino has always been "passionate about beekeeping" and considers himself "hereditarily burdened". His father is a beekeeper, and so were grand-, great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers on both the fathers' and mothers' side. Throughout the years, the company has tested all the products that they sell in the store in the company's own beekeeping for the same reason. This provides not only the company/Heino, but also the beekeepers, with greater certainty when answering questions about products and their use.

Buckfast Queen Breeding. Sustainable beekeeping

Meet Keld Brandstrup and benefit from his 40 years of experience with Buckfast. And meet Flemming Vejsnæs, advisor, beekeeper and globetrotter.

Buckfast Denmark

We visit Buckfast Denmark headed by Keld Brandstrup and Mogens Mundt, and experience Buckfast breeding in Denmark. A journey through the history of Buckfast and a quick course in basic Buckfast Breeding based on 40 years of experience. Topics: island mating, random mating, pedigrees, selection, introduction, production, mating hives and much more. Power Point presentation, Q & A and inspection and evaluation of colonies if the weather permits. Don’t miss this exceptional opportunity.

Lunch

At the canteen of Danish Beekeepers Association

Flemmeing Vejsnæs: Sustainable Beekeeping

Visit a sideliner, keeping bees on a sustainable way. 25 colonies in Farrar styropor boxes. Flow hive, Kenya top bar hive, lot of electronic gadgets. Big beautiful wild on purpose garden. Enjoy the big wild garden and see the amazing wild bee hotel. You will see a house built in a sustainably way. Flemming, biologist, advisor since 1991 for the beekeeper’s association. Been traveling all the world to explore beekeeping.

Worlds best honey, UNESCO hertiage, dedicated beekeepers and world-wide supply of equipment

This two-day tour takes you to the western part of Denmark where we meet Erling Atzen, beekeper at the island Rømø in the wadden sea. Experience the fantastic sight of black sun, meet local beekeepers and the wellknown supplier of bee-equipnet, Swienty. On this trip we also pass Lars Fisher and Zofuz Knudsen, who won the price for worlds best honey at Apimondia 2017.

The heart of the sun

Visit to Lars Fischer and Zofuz Knudsen, eager hobby beekeepers and winners of the World Honey Championship, Apimondia Istanbul 2017.

Zofuz and Lars live in a community of 50 people in the middle of beautiful parks, surrounded by scenic greenery, old trees and, of course, beehives.

Zofuz and Lars have been attending the Apimondia congress for many years. But this time they invite us home to visit their special and spectacular place.

Atzen Honey, Rømø

Erling Atzen started his beekeeping in 2000 on Rømø with a few hives, and today he has more than 200 production colonies in poly hives. The hives are moved around the area to get the honey from the early canola to the late blooming heather, a plant typical for the area.

Good planning and registration is an important part of the work for Erlings beekeeping and we also hear how Erling gets on with his bees when you suddenly find yourself with something unforeseen.

Erlings great interest lies in the work with honey processing, where he works magic with his beech stick to produce a quality product, which means that he, with his own marketing, can sell his entire production of honey.

Wadden Sea, black sun

Nowhere else in the world is there such a diverse and dynamic landscape with numerous habitats that are continuously shaped by the wind and tides. Biodiversity throughout the world depends on the Wadden Sea. UNESCO's designation of the Wadden Sea as a UNESCO World Heritage Site is global recognition of the work that has been done for decades to protect the area, and it means more benefits and opportunities for the region. We will experience the mudflats and take an evening trip in the area to see the black sun, when the large flocks of starlings gather for the night. We spend the night in Ribe, Denmark's oldest city, where there is an opportunity to take a walk in the narrow streets with the historic buildings.

Beekeepers association, Sønderjylland

In the morning we will visit one of Denmark's most beautifully located apiaries, Laksmølle. Laksmølle is Beekeepers' Association Sønderjylland's teaching apiary, where the association trains new beekeepers. During the visit, you will meet the association's teachers, who will tell you about the teaching and what else is going on in the teaching apiary/association.

Swienty - world wide supplier of equipment for beekeeping

We provide beekeepers with high quality beekeeping equipment and beekeeping supplies. We have our own workshop where we produce our filling machines, filling lines, honey processing equipment, queen breeding devices, liquefying and heating devices and many other tools for beekeeping. For all other products, we work with quality controlled and certified suppliers that are able to supply beekeeping tools, supplies and equipment according to our own highest quality standards.

We distribute our products through a global dealer network or directly through our own shop.

This tour takes you by boat from Copenhagen to the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and back. The voyage is a scenic experience through the Norwegian fjords, allowing you to enjoy the company of fellow beekeepers along the way.

ByBi Oslo - Cooperative and Urban Beekeeping in Oslo

Norway's largest local beekeeping group, with around 240 members, creates a social space for beekeeping in the city. We meet the founder, Ragna Ribe Jørgensen, and hear about the journey since its founding in 2013 and the fantastic atmosphere they have cultivated in the local group. We get to see the communal apiary and learn about different management styles. There will also be an opportunity to taste various types of Norwegian honey and learn more about the sensory aspects of nature's gold.

Accommodation

Overnight on the DFDS cruise ship on both nights with 5 hours in Oslo.
Departure at 15.00 on Day 1 and return in Copenhagen at 10.00 on day 3. All meals included.

Honningcentralen - Norway’s Largest Honey Processing and Packaging Facility

Founded in 1927, Honningcentralen currently has about 1,300 members. Operating as a cooperative, HC is the largest distributor of honey in the Norwegian market. We will enjoy an exciting tour of HC's facilities in Kløfta, about 40 minutes north of Oslo. HC also has a large equipment shop where there is an opportunity to purchase beekeeping-related products.

The Norwegian Beekeepers Association - Norway’s Interest Group for Beekeepers

With its 4,000 members, the organization works to ensure a safe and sustainable industry that supports beekeepers' interests. We will visit NB’s research apiary, about 50 minutes north of Oslo, where selective breeding methods are tested in hopes of developing a hardy, Varroa-tolerant bee. Today, the apiary has 57 colonies, and this is expected to remain roughly the same next year.