Church Bees

We keep bees in the churchyard: two hives that, in a good year, can yield 100 kg of honey.

Henrik Rammer is our beekeeper and currently he is running a beginners’ course here at the church to train others to look after our hives - or start beekeeping for themselves.

For everyone we have our Church Honey Day on Saturday 9 August out at Henrik’s waterside home on Ingarö, to spin and jar the honey - and have a lovely time in the sun.

Travel by bike or by car or by bus from the city (which takes about an hour).

Bring a picnic - and swimming clothes, if you like that sort of thing. There’ll be games to play and kayaks and time to sit and snooze and the pleasure of each other’s company.

More details to follow.

It all began before Covid. Back then, we helped start Stockholm Loves Pollinators - to persuade the City to manage its spaces in a pollinator-friendly way, for the sake of all of us.

Getting a beehive was the next step in raising our awareness of the crash in pollinator numbers - and fulfilled a small dream: we were half-way to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Since then, we’ve added another hive, weathered a couple of difficult winters, and are looking forward to a great summer of ‘25.