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 · August 02, 2023
It is done: The honey of the year 2023 is filled into jars. All four varieties of honey shine with their fine, very individual taste:
2023 · July 17, 2023
Last Sunday, the garden beekeeper could harvest and extract 260kg of summer honey. The full honey buckets in the picture are the result of a long working day: At 6 o'clock the honey boxes at the external stand were cleared, afterwards the honey of the colonies in the garden. Equipment was set up in the kitchen. Thankfully, little daughter patiently and persistently turned the hand crank of the extractor. At midday, a colleague called and informed that all hell had broken loose at the outdoor...
June 09, 2023
The 2023 spring honey is in the jars and available now as Frühlingsblüte from the rapeseed field in Eberstadt (left, creamy) and from the Heilbronn garden (right, liquid). Why is the honey from the rapeseed field not labeled as rapeseed honey? Because the color and also the data of the hive scale show that the honey also contains portions of acacia blossom and probably leaf honey from a nearby forest. It shows once again: The beekeeper makes a plan, and then life comes (or rather, the bees...
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,...
2022 · August 03, 2022
The 2022 harvest is in the jars. The garden beekeeper's bees were wandering this season. Thus, the garden beekeeper can currently offer the following varieties: Golden yellow spring honey from the Heilbronn garden. White fine stiff rape honey from Eberstadt and Böllinger Mühle Summer honey from the Heilbronn garden, from Weinsberg or from the Böllinger Mühle (with blackberry blossom) Dark chestnut honey from the Heidelberg city forest
August 05, 2021
The exceptionally light honey called "Sommerblüte" ("Summer Blossom") is dominated by nectar from the linden blossom. It has a strong, aromatic flavor. This delicious rarity is now available in jars of 500g or 250g - in limited quantities while stocks last.
2021 · August 04, 2021
For the first time, the automatic filler and the labeler are used simultaneously. In the video, you can see that the processes are well coordinated and that it takes just 20 seconds to fill and label a jar without having to hurry particularly.
2020 · July 16, 2020
The honey harvest 2020 is in the jar! Spring blossom is a bright and in the aroma rather mild blossom honey of early bloomers like snowdrops, winterling, crocus, dandelion and stone fruit. Summer blossom is an aromatic, golden-brown honey from the lime tree, chestnut, acacia, raspberry and blackberry. Both varieties are available in jars of 500g or 250g.