Honey harvest at Röbäcksdalen

In the end of September the honey from the bee hives at Röbäcksdalen were harvested. The honey harvest was relatively small this year, which is true for other honey producers in Västerbotten county. Even though June was unusually warm, July was cold and rainy, which limited the bees ability to collect pollen and nectar during this time. The honey has been tapped into small sampling jars of around 75 g, which will be tested as an SLU profile product. The size makes it easy to travel with and it is therefore an excellent gift for visitors.

Röbäcksdalen research station aims to increase the activity to five bee hives, hopefully already until 2022, to be able to offer good conditions for research on honey bees in northern Sweden.