Our motivation is passion
to the bees and the love for nature
The honey bee plays a central role in our ecosystem and our cultural landscapes. It is important to us to preserve the bees for the landscape and biodiversity. This is only possible in harmony with the biology and nature of the bee colony. Therefore, we pay attention to natural and humane beekeeping and work according to the strict ecological guidelines of the Biokreis.
Only the best for our bees. They are allowed to live in natural wooden hives without paint. The hives are made in our own workshop from local wood.
My grandfather already had his bees in the orchards of organic farmers who were friends of mine. Even today, we pay great attention to an intact environment for our bees and choose our bee colony locations with the utmost care. This is possible in unpolluted nature or in cultural landscapes such as organic fennel, rapeseed or buckwheat from farmers with ecological farming methods. The stands for our bees are regional. Our bees are spared longer bee transports to the usual foraging regions. Nevertheless, we make sure that our bees are not hungry during the summer.
I cordially invite you to visit our bees and hope you like our variety of honey and our other products.
Her Marcel Willared
What connects generations
Our history
Marcel Willared
Animal farmer specializing in beekeeping, operations manager,
owner
"Honey bees are like wild animals.
They also act wildly.
Today they need the beekeeper and the beekeeper needs the bees.
A kind of symbiosis"
Dieter Willared
beekeepers and wood technicians,
Accounting,
sales
"It was the passion for the bees and the love for nature,
what made my father become a beekeeper, why I keep bees and my son
made it his job. "
Stephanie Willared
product design,
Marketing,
sales
"My family is my lifeblood, my love and my blessing,
for which I give everything."
1940s
My grandfather Georg Willared learned beekeeping from his uncle when he was young. At that time with the stinging "black bee" and the still usual rear treatment hives in bee houses.
1955
Grandpa builds an apiary for nine bee colonies in the orchard of a fruit farmer friend of his.
He joins the local beekeepers' association and has been on the board of directors for many years.
1956
Since 1956 grandpa has been driving this motorbike to his bees.
1958
As one of the first beekeepers in the Odenwald, my grandfather breeds with the gentle bee species "Carnica".
1960
Another apiary for 40 bee colonies is being built near the house.
1965
My grandparents hurled electric for the first time and
the apiary is extended by a centrifugal room.
1970
The apiary in the orchard is expanded and now has space for a hand-operated honey extractor and another 5 bee colonies.
Today this slingshot from the 1930s stands in front of our farm shop "Das Honiglädchen"
1975
My grandfather discovered beekeeping with magazine hives for himself and increased his bee population with these variable, freely placeable bee boxes.
This facilitates the way of working, flexibility and the bee colonies can develop better.
1980
My father Dieter Willared joined the beekeeping business at the age of 14.
Later he was also a member of the board of the local beekeepers' association for a long time.
1985
The apiary invests in a small workshop for the production of bee boxes.
My father's training as a carpenter enables me to make the magazine beehives myself.
Due to the operation of the magazine beekeeping and the help of my great-uncle Adam, the beekeeping manages at times around 150 bee colonies as a sideline.
2005
My father continues to run the beekeeping with about 100 bee colonies as a sideline and continues to invest in the beekeeping together with Stephanie Willared.
2007
The family opens "Das Honiglädchen" as a brand and their own shop, for the first time with the current logo and at that time still in Michelstadt.
"Das Honiglädchen" is also the first time to equip the stand at the Michelstadt Christmas market.
2010
For the first time in the history of our beekeeping, my father and I hike with our bees in different costumes, from rapeseed, chestnut to heather.
2011
Infected by the generations before me, I now regularly help with the bees and decide to complete an apprenticeship as a "animal manager specializing in beekeeping". I left my parents' house at the age of 16 and started my apprenticeship as a beekeeper at the bee institute in Mayen.
2012
The family and beekeeping move into a forest house in Hardheim, which has been the center of everything we do ever since.
2013
For the benefit of the bees, the beekeeping is completely converting its operating methods to a variable brood chamber based on "Bruder Adam" and "Dadant".
2014
I pass my apprenticeship exam with flying colors and top marks.
2015
As a trained beekeeper, I work for a large organic apiary and at the same time I am building my own professional beekeeping business together with my father Dieter.
2016
My father developed a variable hive floor for rational and bee-friendly work.
Together we produce large quantities of hives and honey chamber frames from local woods ourselves.
I join the German Professional Beekeepers Association DBIB.
2017
One honey season I'm at a Manuka beekeeping in New Zealand and there I experience a completely different view of the operation of a beekeeping.
2018
We convert the beekeeping to an ecological operating method and become a recognized and certified Biokreis company.
The number of bee colonies is continuously and carefully increased.
To ensure that the small regional bee migrations work effectively and smoothly, the beekeeping invests in a small truck with four-wheel drive.
2019
Our organic beekeeping is certified as a regional & fair operation.
Since this year the beekeeping has been working with a new 40 honeycomb extractor and a new uncapping station.
2020
The beekeeping puts its new website and shop online and presents itself on Instagram and Facebook from now on.
We start the production of organic beeswax candles and tealights without aluminium.
Our homemade honey specialties are new to our product range.
An example of this is our Sweet Onion, an organic honey and onion jam , simply for a special taste experience.
You can now find our honeys, candles and specialties at the organic markets and other resellers listed here.
Due to the current Corona contact restrictions, we will open "Das Honiglädchen" on a small scale on April 5th, as a farm shop at our beekeeping.
Our successful work has not gone unnoticed this year. successful press article and a really beautiful one Photo reportage from "My Odenwald" with Petra Arnold about our beekeeping came about. The lifestyle magazine “ubi bene” also took notice of us and reported on our organic beekeeping on several pages in “ Hortus ”.
Our natural garden and our orchards are now organically certified, so that the delicious organic apple honey wine could be made from our apples.
Since our hives are made exclusively from regional wood, we invest in our wood workshop and various woodworking machines.
2021
The stricter certification guidelines according to regional&fair are met and our products will henceforth bear the new logo of Biokreis and regional&fair.
After a year of maturing, our organic honey wine is going on the market for the first time.
Sweet, natural, without additives and finely filtered, a pleasure and a must for every mead lover.
We now have over 1,000 followers on Instagram and Facebook, which makes us very happy.
The largest trade fair for organic products, BIOFACH in Nuremberg, has been canceled due to the corona virus and will be transformed into an online trade fair.
We were able to contribute to this successful, Europe-wide online event with a lecture on the topic "Honey marketing rethought". A lecture on the topic of biodiversity also followed.
The SWR is our guest and we then do an interview on the radio. An impressive contribution by and with Ms. Friederike Kroitzsch, on May 20th, on World Bee Day.
Our organic honey - fennel blossom wins the title "Image Honey of the Year 2021" in the Professionals category. We thank the jurors, Ralf Zachel, Pia Engel Nixon, Markus Semmler, Michael Quandt and the Bavarian Honey Queen Katharina II .
A number of newspapers throughout Germany report on this success and also on the visit to our forester's lodge
Catherine II
Thomas Lohnes , professional photographer for BILD, STERN and DER SPIEGEL, is now a good friend of the house and takes pictures of the bees in the meadow orchards and the sunflowers.
The photos and videos appear in BILD, BILD-Online and WELT .
We are delighted that he intends to photograph and document our beekeeping over the coming year. Some of his photos can also be found here on our website.
At least two event markets have been taking place this year for a long time, and we were able to successfully present ourselves with our new market stand made of natural wood.
The product range in the area of our honey specialties is growing continuously.
Germany's best-known trade magazine for beekeepers and nature lovers, " bienen&natur ", reports on our latest creations, organic honey with organic berries.
We still have many goals, so we want to push our product ideas further and establish ourselves more broadly on the organic market.
There will definitely not be a standstill.
The nature of the bee is so alluring, contagious and interesting that it will always be a part of our family.
Marcel Willared
At least two event markets have been taking place this year for a long time, and we were able to successfully present ourselves with our new market stand made of natural wood.
The product range in the area of our honey specialties is growing continuously.
Germany's best-known trade magazine for beekeepers and nature lovers, " bienen&natur ", reports on our latest creations, organic honey with organic berries.
We still have many goals, so we want to push our product ideas further and establish ourselves more broadly on the organic market.
There will definitely not be a standstill.
The nature of the bee is so alluring, contagious and interesting that it will always be a part of our family.
Marcel Willared
At least two event markets have been taking place this year for a long time, and we were able to successfully present ourselves with our new market stand made of natural wood.
The product range in the area of our honey specialties is growing continuously.
Germany's best-known trade magazine for beekeepers and nature lovers, " bienen&natur ", reports on our latest creations, organic honey with organic berries.
We still have many goals, so we want to push our product ideas further and establish ourselves more broadly on the organic market.
There will definitely not be a standstill.
The nature of the bee is so alluring, contagious and interesting that it will always be a part of our family.
Marcel Willared
