Buckwheat honey from Volodin brothers
Volodin, Viktor Stepanovich and sons (in the photo - sons)
Orel region, Znamensky district, village Selihovo. About 400 km from Moscow.
Volodins deal only with buckwheat honey.They have 20 "bee colonies"
Here is what Volodins have written about themselves:
"Viktor Stepanovich Volodin, Orel town native, born in 1944. All my life worked as a master of rope shop for rolling mill in Orel. Married, two adult married sons.
Beekeeper with roots, his grandfather worked with bees and when he was 10-12 years old started to get interested himself. He helped his grandfather in everything concerning the bees and apiary. Grandfather died, the bees died.
After 8 yerars in school started hisown bees, had 7-8 hives untill serving in the army. After the army, studied, married and by the age of 30 went back to beekeeping.
His motto is: " Not quantity but quality," ie,there is no point having a lot of beehives, it is better to ensure that every bee family give a maximum of honey.
The foundation of all - a strong bee family. He achieves this by not allowing families to swarm, in time dividing family and making a "double decker" hive. Thus, two families develop separately, but in one hive. When going "to the field" connects these two families, leaving the young queen, and as a result gets a strong bee family. From such a family he gets 50 liters of honey.
He has 20 families (for comparison: his colleagues have 40 families, and they collect the same amount of honey).
. All is needed he makes himself: hives, frames, wax in exchange for honeycombs, honey pumps, etc.
. With beehives he goes in mid-June to mid-August to buckwheat fields of Orel region fore more than 20 years. He lives there with the bees. "
800 rubles per 0.5 liter
1500 rubles per liter
3200 rub.- 3 liter cans
Volodin himself at the apiary.
