2024 · July 28, 2024
This year's honey was extracted on July 13th and is now being successively filled into jars. Due to the rainy weather, there was only one harvest this year: the annual honey contains mainly early honey and lime blossom, as well as everything that blooms in the city. It is quite dark, very aromatic and has a slight hint of mint. It bears the label “summer blossom”. The garden beekeeper wonders whether this fine taste comes from the lime trees or actually from the mint that blooms in his own...
2023 · June 05, 2023
Heilbronner Gertenhonig is filled into jars in liquid form and crystallizes after a certain time. This is how it develops the authentic natural crunch. In this way, we follow our claim, which we have also formulated in our mission statement: Heilbronner Gartenhonig should remain as natural as possible, which is why we do not usually stir it. Rapeseed honey, on the other hand, crystallizes quickly and becomes very hard in the jar. Therefore, we make an exception with rapeseed honey and stir it,...
2020 · July 25, 2020
When the freshly extracted honey has passed a coarse double sieve and a fine sieve, it appears to be clear. But if you leave it in the bucket for a few days, you will find a white layer on the surface: Finest wax particles, which have a lower density than honey, have slowly risen to the surface and form a foam layer.
2020 · May 21, 2020
The Heilbronn bees were diligent again. Today, the delicious spring honey has been harvested - and got not a single sting :-) In a few days, the new honey will be filled into jars. The garden beekeeper is happy to accept advance orders.
2018 · December 10, 2018
In our manufactory we not only produce the delicious honey in traditional handicraft (better said the bees produce it - we harvest it and fill it freshly into jars). We also design the labels ourselves and apply them to the jars manually. This is more elaborate than getting the labels ready from a print shop and gluing the jars by machine. The thoroughly meditative character of this work allows the garden beekeeper to enjoy this as well - preferably on cold winter days with a cosy cup of tea...
2018 · August 24, 2018
10 kg of wax blocks were reworked to 140 foundations. The success of the casting in the water-cooled foundation mould depends on many parameters, including wax temperature, cooling water flow, speed and pressure when closing the mould and waiting time until the lid is opened. Therefore this step is also a test of patience or a gift of meditative life time :-)
2018 · August 22, 2018
At the end of the bee season the garden beekeeper prepares the wax collected from the sun wax melter and young empty combs. He boils it in a large pot together with water. Water-soluble substances such as honey residues dissolve in the water and can be disposed of. The liquid wax then rests for a few hours to clear. In this process further components such as bee parts, propolis and pollen settle at the top or bottom. The thus cleaned wax is scooped carefully with a soup ladle into empty...
2018 · July 01, 2018
Harvesting honey is one of the highlights of the bee year - at least for the beekeeper. The second and last extraction this year produced a surprisingly dark honey, with a high proportion of leaf honey from the lime tree. Forest honey, so to speak, collected and harvested by bees in the city centre of Heilbronn. Only a few days left, then this delicacy will be available freshly filled in jars.
2018 · May 23, 2018
Today, with the help of his youngest daughter, the garden beekeeper extracted the first harvest in 2018. The honey passes through three filters after the centrifugation. It then rests for one or two days so that the finest wax particles and air bubbles rise to the surface and can be removed. Then it is filled into jars.