Greek Honey

The tenth annual festival celebrating Greek-made honey and other apiary products opens its doors this Friday, December 7, at 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) at the Exhibition Hall of the Stadium of Peace and Friendship in Faliro, Athens. Agriculture and Food...

"Greece, despite domestic perceptions, is the 34th exporter of honey worldwide, with a market share of 0.34 pct of total value of exports in 2014, and a total export value of 7.47 million US dollars, less than Portugal (9.49...

Marina Nikoloulea is a 28-year-old Greek scientist turned artist. Through her love for the environment and her scientific knowledge she has managed to create an original and unique collection of jewelry, entitled Queen Bee. The Melbourne-based designer completed her education...

Two Greek clinical dieticians, Asteria Stamataki and Constantinos Xenos, wrote a book on Greek superfoods, not all widely known, but with miraculous qualities. The book entitled "Get to Know Greek Superfoods" is published by Dioptra and contains well-known but quite a few...

The 6th Festival of Greek Honey and Bee Products, set to take place on December 5-7 at the Peace & Friendship Stadium, aims to promote Greek honey and bee products and to inform the public on its potential. The three-day...

People who visit Greece always want to take small souvenirs back home, either to treat their friends and family or to remember their journey and the amazing time they had in the country. Whether you prefer your souvenir to be food,...

The popular Greek Ska-Reggae band Locomondo joined powers with Greenpeace to support bees in Greece, which are seriously decreasing in number. Paraphrasing the well-known phrase from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" they named their witty song “To bee or not to...

Honey with edible gold leaf, which foreigners seem to love, and the sales of which have boomed, is a Greek patent, the idea of a young couple from Evia, Greece, who, while they were about to leave the country...

In the 5th “Panhellenic Agrotica Conference” Crysoula Tananaki, lecturer at the Department of Agriculture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Pavlos Bagiatis, chairman of the Beekeeping Association of Thessaloniki, declared that after six years of research the qualitative...

The rosemary season has ended, but sage is in full bloom. In the fragrant hills of the Peloponnese in southern Greece, after a few sharp turns along a path, Nikos Reppas' old car arrives at bee heaven: a field full...