"Have you ever made your own honey?" - 14 children and their parents from the Saarpfalz district can now answer this question with "yes." They took part in an experiential event organized by the district adult education center of the Saarpfalz district in cooperation with the Beekeeping Association Blieskastel and surroundings.
The district adult education center and the beekeeping association showed visitors of all ages at the bee educational trail on the grounds of the anglers' club (ASV) Blickweiler how honey gets into the jar. Club member Franz Müller first introduced the fascinating world and life of the bees. The children learned how important bees are for our flora and fauna by pollinating flowers, enabling plants to bear fruit. Then they went straight to the beehives, where the bees greeted the children warmly. There, the chairman Ernst Welsch and the young beekeeper, eleven-year-old Timo Krämer, showed them the beehives.
“We always make sure to select only peaceful beekeeping breeds,” explains Ernst Welsch. Then the children were allowed to go on a search for the queen bee together. Observing the buzzing livestock up close impressed both young and old. Afterwards, delicious honey was harvested in its most natural form, which the children could taste directly from the comb before moving on to the extraction process. Mark Herzog, head of the district adult education center, bid farewell to the participants and was pleased that the event could finally take place, as they had wanted to offer it earlier: “We have wanted to hold this event for three years, but the virus and weather kept preventing us. However, we have stuck to this great idea.” “Now it has finally worked,” said the treasurer of the beekeepers, Werner Reichert, who showed a special feature at the end. The children learned firsthand about one of the original uses of beeswax while making candles. “When are we doing this again?” one of the children asked expectantly at the end of the event. The children will have to be patient a little longer, but if the virus allows it, Mark Herzog said the district adult education center will offer another course in cooperation with the beekeeping association in November.
