It is almost tradition, but beekeeping De Drentse Krent has again won prizes at the prestigious London Honey Awards. And that in the middle of turbulent times with drought and damage to bees due to heavy storms.
Angelique Schipper is busy with it. Together with her son and beekeeper assistant Nick, who is completing his master’s degree in landscape history at the RUG with the subject of his graduation research Nature inclusive agriculture and agroforestry. Man Jan looks at the apiary, the apiary had suffered a lot of damage. In addition, beekeeper Angelique from Saudi Arabia can also be found for the search for ‘Good Queens’, good, strong and healthy and powerful queen bees. This contact is experienced as a great compliment, but Angelique strongly advises against importing or exporting queens or bee colonies.
Bee mixture seed
There are new partnerships with an arable farmer from Smilde, who has sown more than one hectare of bee mixture seed around the bee farm De Drentse Krent adjacent to the orchard. At the request of Angelique and Nick, this bee mixture has to be used a lot phacelia better known as bee bread and cucumber herb.
Then students from the Friesland College LIS came to visit to make a report. In fact, the presentation of the London Honey Awards 2023 in the midst of the most exciting month for bees and their development was completely compromised. Angelique checked the site at the request of the General Manager of the London Honey Awards, asking if they have any plans to come to London this year. After all, the look was gold-edged again. ‘Silver for the Heather and Gold for her flower honey.