Vlasotince · Svođe · Čemernik

Mountain honey from Čemernik.

A family apiary in Vlasotince producing acacia, Vlasina and forest honey. Over the season the hives move up to the slopes of Čemernik, and each location is extracted separately. Through extraction and packing the honey is never warmed above 40 °C, so that its natural properties are kept. The honey comes in 300 to 980 g packs, with delivery across Serbia and cash on delivery.

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A row of painted hives on a meadow at first light, a beekeeper in the distance.
The slopes of Čemernik, the morning before extraction

Čemernik · summit 1 638 m

Three stops, April to August.

The hives begin the season in Vlasotince, move to Svođe in mid May and go up to the slopes of Čemernik at the beginning of June. As the altitude rises the blossom comes later, so a flow that lasts about ten days lower down stretches to almost a month higher up.

The whole route
  1. ~270 mVlasotinceFirst acacia · late April
  2. ~500 mSvođeSecond acacia and honeydew · May and July
  3. ~1 200 mSlopes of ČemernikVlasina · June–August
AcaciaVlasinaForestHoney as a giftPropolis
You can taste the altitudeVlasotinceSvođeČemernikVlasina

Index

What goes in a jar.

01Acacia honey May–June · Vlasotince and Svođe 02Vlasina honey June–August · the slopes of Čemernik 03Forest honey July · oak, maple and hornbeam honeydew 04Honey as a gift One to three things · to someone else

The collection

Honey, comb and propolis.

Each honey comes from its own stop and its own altitude, so they differ in colour, in taste and in when they are extracted. Acacia and Vlasina honey also come in the comb, and alongside the honey there is propolis.

The method

Extracted after every flow.

Instead of one extraction at the end of summer, the supers come off as soon as a flow finishes. What ends up in the jar is only what the bees brought in then.

The full method and what we never do
  1. 01Capped comb

    A frame is extracted only once the bees have sealed the cells with wax, because the water content is then low enough for the honey to be kept safely.

  2. 02Controlled extraction

    An electric extractor draws the honey evenly out of the cells, the comb stays intact and after the spin it goes back to the bees.

  3. 03Sieve and settling

    The honey passes through a coarse sieve and then rests for a few days to clear naturally. Pollen passes through the sieve and stays in the honey.

You can taste the altitude.

A cell has six walls and holds about two grams of honey.

Season 01

Acacia flowers for ten days.

That is how long the acacia flow lasts at one location. When it ends in Vlasotince it is only beginning at Svođe, 230 metres higher up, so the two stops together gather almost three weeks of acacia flow.

Hives lined along a slope, acacia in bloom above them.
10days of bloom
Acacia in full bloom, white racemes against a clear sky
Acacia
An open hive with wild comb and bees.
A 980 g jar of acacia honey held in front of the apiary
230metres higher
A frame of pollen.

Numbers

What it looks like in numbers.

  • 0stops in a single season
  • 0extractions, one per flow
  • 0the ceiling, never crossed
  • 0sugar syrup during the flow

Small things from the apiary

Open a cell.

Behind every cell is one fact from the apiary: the altitude of a stop, a month, a temperature.

0 / 19 open

Gift

Send it to someone else.

One to three things of your choosing, each in the size you pick. It goes straight to the recipient's address, with no price in the parcel.

Put a gift together

Customers

What people who ordered say.

Good honey, and the other bee products with it, matter a great deal to my family. We are from Smederevska Palanka, and that has not stopped us being regular customers of the Radonjić family. I recommend them warmly.

Danijela Vasiljević, Smederevska Palanka

An almost irreplaceable taste of first-rate meadow and acacia honey. At the Radonjić place you get honey of the highest quality, from a wholly natural setting, made with a great deal of love. The best that nature has to offer.

Ilić Buba

From the apiary

Before you choose.

Why honey sets, how to store it and how the three varieties differ.

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