Give Away for World Bee Day and Honey Lavender Bundt Cake

May 20th is the worldwide Bee Day. For that reason I decided to publish a recipe with honey, today you will get a honey lavender bundt cake. In addition, I am giving away 1x honey jar from Münchner Honig, which was produced by the bees you see pictured here, 1x set of bee wax papers from Little bee fresh and 2x seeds to make a tiny meadow on your balcony to give the bees some flowers to take nectar from. How to be part of this, I explain below.

Did you know that working bees only live for six weeks? During that time they produce about a teaspoon of honey. Next time you complain about the price of honey, you know why. Considering that bees need to fly three times around the earth in order to produce one jar of honey, I would say honey is pretty cheap, don’t you think?

There are about 1,000 beekepers in Munich alone. Beekeeper Ines Zirnbauer runs Münchner Honig, so honey from Munich as a hobby. She was kind enough to allow me to take pictures of her while she was bee-keeping. While doing that, I learned a lot about bees. I am still amazed as to how much a bee is able to do (they have different jobs during their lives). At least I was not aware how much effort is put in one jar of honey. To think that for below recipe about 85 bees had to work all of their lives in order to produce the honey needed… wow, I never thought about that.

What you can do in a city in order to help bees

• I asked Ines and also checked the Internet what you can do in the city to help bees. One of the most important things is to offer them food in the form of flowers. It is important to pick the right flowers, not all of them serve bees alike. One of the reasons for so many bees actually dying is the fact that they simply cannot find enough food anymore. So make sure you can a variety of flowers which blossom during different months to offer enough food throughout the season.
• For wild bees that live alone (yes, there are also lonely wolves among bees), you can offer them a nice comfy place to sleep.  This handmade stone is easy to place on your balcony and will serve for many years, making sure that they are not hurt from splinters (this sometimes happens with the cheap stuff you can find).
• In the hot summer months it also helps to put out fresh water for the bees to drink from. Be sure to place a stone, small piece of wood inside so that the bees can sit on it while drinking. You need to change the water regularly.

Credit: Adapted from King Arthur Baking

Gugelhupfform von Nordic Ware

What does the giveaway consist of:

• 1x one jar of honey from Münchner Honig, which was produced by the pictured bees
• 1x one set of three beewax papers from Little bee fresh
• 2x bags of seeds to create a tiny meadow on your balcony to provide food for the bees

What you need to do to be part of the giveaway?

• Leave a comment under this blog post stating what you enjoy honey with the most. All comments entered by May 23, 2022 until midnight are valid.
• All people older than 18 and residing in the European Union can take part, so this is NOT open to the whole world.
• Only one comment per person is allowed, duplicate comments or comments from the same address will be deleted.
• I am not responsible for any technical problems when commenting
• The winner is chosen randomly by lot
• A valid email address is important when commenting so that I can inform the winner
• All personal data of the participants will be processed according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO solely for the purpose of finding and informing the winner
• The winner will be contacted by email and will be asked for the address in order to ship the giveaway. If the person does not reply within 72 hours, I will randomly choose another person.

The winner was Heike K. and she has been notified.