Bees are very important to us, and not only for honey. The most important thing is pollination, because the production of a third of all the food we have depends on it. But due to climate change, diseases, intensive agriculture and pesticides, bees are increasingly threatened. While beekeepers do their best to protect their bees, wild bees are more exposed. There are more than 500 different species of wild bees...

The traditional Slovenian breakfast is bread with butter and honey, and honey is also added to tea, eaten when we have a cold, and used to sweeten various pastries. It has become so self-evident to us that we no longer even ask where it comes from. We don't realize that one bee works its whole life to produce 1/12 teaspoon of honey. For a whole jar, a bee would have...