how is it made? How are the bees doing in Franche-Comté?

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Good or bad season for the Spring honey harvest?
A honey made at the first rays of the sun where the bees will feed and draw the pollens from the fruit trees.

Beware of the cold… and frozen buds!

This is one of the concerns of beekeepers after the beautiful days recorded and the record temperatures recorded in recent weeks in Franche-Comté!

To analyze how a hive works and the daily life of beekeepersRomain Ambro receives this Tuesday on France Bleu Besançon:

Mickaël GIRARD – professional beekeeper in Labergement-Sainte-Marie (25)

Le Rucher des Deux Lacs is a small family business created by Jean-Baptiste GIRARD in 1983 in a small village near Besançon in Velesmes Essarts. A few years later, the company moved to Haut-Doubs, very close to the Saint-Point lake in Labergement-Sainte-Marie. A privileged place for harvesting honey3

Today, the 2 children, Johann and Michael took over this activity “Le Rucher des Deux Lacs”.
They take care of 1000 hives distributed in the region and produce 20 tons of honey per year.

The honeys of Johann and Mickaël GIRARD have been rewarded at the Concours Général Agricole
– The Two Lakes Apiary

The site of the Apiary of the Two Lakes

Alain PICARD – passionate beekeeper in Besançon

Member of the Doubs Beekeeping Union and passionate beekeeper in Besançon, he began beekeeping out of passion then developed around thirty hives either 80 kilos of honey produced per year.

He produces different kinds of honey because his bees forage in several municipalities of Besançon such as Avanne-Aveney, Serre les Sapins, Grandfontaine, Amancey…:

  • spring honey
  • fruit tree honey
  • dandelion honey
  • Acacia honey
  • forest honey
  • Linden honey
In the spring, it works in the hive!
In the spring, it works in the hive! © Radio France
– Caroline PAUL


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