We are Organic Honey Producers and our ultimate aim is the conservation of the bees! Our home and amazing bees are in the deep forests of North Värmland, Sweden. The unique autumn honey from this area is called “Heather honey” or “Ljunghonung”, “Heidehoning”, “Heide-Honig”, it is dark and rich in flavor known for its benefits and contribution to the health of our bodies. On our travels we have met
other high quality honey and related products and wish to make them available to you. We respect the natural organic ‘collective intelligence’ of the bee-society. Each bee-society is a separate intelligent being with different characteristics and different responses. To varying degrees a person, a dog, a horse or a dolphin has an individual character. A Bee hive or “honey bee society” is now recognized scientifically as a superorganism, which means that the whole community is regarded as an individual and that single bees, in that society are like the cells of a body with their various tasks. My Father kept bees in northern England. I was carpenter. My wife, who helps and supports me in all this, is a Karate instructor also runs a therapeutic and sports injury clinic and is a mother to our 5 year old son. We started this venture in the north of Sweden, 60 km from the Arctic Circle. We did our homework with the education and support of a generous local professional bee-keeper and a local farming consultancy agency. Then we set up “Swedish Arctic Honey”. The first harvests were good and we had much enthusiastic support from the local people. We looked like reaching our target of viability in 4 years. We won the Local Environmental Business award. Then the weather struck. 2012 was the worst honey harvest in the memory of old local beekeepers. Due to exceptional rain and little sun, we averaged 3 kg per society against a normal expected yield of 25 kg per society in that region. The next year was hardly better! Many bee-keepers lost all their bees. The land of 24 hour sun, in recent history, produces a good crop of honey with the intensity of a short summer of 24 hour sunshine, but the absence of that sun for two years running was against us! To give our bees a better environment, we had to move south where the summer is longer. We continued to support the bees from our other work while we looked for the right place and then we were miraculously offered the house where we live now, Gustavsfors, Värmland, which is in an environment that is perfect for bees. This is an amazing forest area that is totally free from chemicals, dense traffic and the side effects of mono-agriculture. Our Aim: A SUSTAINABLE, bee conservation zone. A disease-free, insecticide-free, herbicide-free, bee sanctuary. Deep in the sparsely populated forest of “the wild outback” of Sweden. Now we cooperate with about 90 bee-societies throughout this wonderful forested wilderness. Together we produce and sell the most amazing summer and autumn honey and also produce new offshoot bee-societies for new or existing beekeepers. You are welcome to purchase directly from us or from the shops who sell our products. To visit us, it is best to call first, enter “Swedish Wild Honey” into Google Maps, to find us. Visit our web shop www.swedish-forest-honey.com visit us on F/B about honey www.facebook.com/swedishforesthoney/
about bees https://www.facebook.com/thehappybeezone and wed site http://www.thebeezone.org/
