Stadtbienenhonig @ LeporelloHoney tasting andstories from the beekeping year 2025

Listening to Erika talk about her adventures as a beekeeper is always a fascinating experience, even more so, needless to say, when we can listen to her during a tasting of the different honeys collected from May to August in Rome and the Lazio countryside, where the Stadtbienenhonig hives are home to bees that are given maximum freedom to explore the territory and create their own living spaces. Stadtbienenhonig (city bee honey) started in 2007 on the roofs of Berlin. Since 2021 Stadtbienenhonig continues in Rome, on a smaller scale.

“Giving the bee colonies under my care the space they need to develop themselves, to develop into their wildness, is the priority principles of my beekeeping technique. The care shall be primarily supportive. I want them to develop out of themselves, to build up a folk/hive knowledge, to stay with me over many years and, in the best case, to keep rejuvenating themselves – all with the least direct encounter. They live in a place that provides them the abundance of flower nectar, pollen and water they need, while guaranteeing their protection from enemies. The honey I harvest is only a surplus. I always take only a small part of it, only honey that ripens in the specially created cells.”