Meet our BFF beekeepers

The initiative BFF – Bees Feed Families – not only helps bees and promotes biodiversity but also supports beekeepers and their families in Ukraine. By transferring knowledge and investing in beehives and equipment for honey harvesting, we assist beekeepers, many of whom are women, in building sustainable businesses. Furthermore, we help them obtain organic certification. With suficient resources, proper training, and a fair price for honey, we can ensure stable growth.

In Ukraine the climate and the vegetation is extremely beneficial for bees, but also the situation where there is a full skill war and a lot of arable land has been mined makes beekeeping an agricultural activity of choice.

When your land is not usable for plowing, sowing and harvesting, the bees can still safely fly there and collect nectar and provide rural families with an income.

With the revenues from the honey we can not only help the farmers generate a living income, but also support de-mining activities after the war so that hopefully they will have access to their farmland at some point.

We are now a very mixed group of beekeepers. It started with Dmitro, who with his wife and daughter fled from the frontline in the South Mykholaiv province and moved up north with only thirty of his threehundred colonies. So we helped him to get back on his feet, bought all of his honey, and he was one of the first beekeepers to become organically certified.

And what about Genadi, the retired rocket scientist from Pavlograd who now supports his family with the help of his bees? Or Maksim, Valentin and Yuri, farmers in Sumy province, just thirty kilometers from the Russian border who are local YouTube celebrities because they arrested some Russian soldiers were lost there, but are actually very serious beekeepers and nature conservatists?

There are many many stories of how Bees Feed Families, and we will share them with you here.

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Dmitro

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Genadi

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Discover the inspiring journey of a bee farmer in a poor country. Join us and experience the incredible story of resilience, determination, and sustainability at the heart of BFF Honey. By empowering beekeepers in Moldova, Kosovo, and Ukraine, we provide essential...

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