Nicos Chatzilias spent their days to dissolve bee colonies with a unique view on the roofs of the Greece capital.
He is one of the dozens of athanian people who have adopted urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, re -connect with nature and enjoy the taste of honey by local plants and flowers in each neighborhood.
The 37 -year -old Chatzilias was a heavy honey consumer, eating it with bread and tea for breakfast and using it to replace sugar everywhere with cookies and other sweets. He was dissatisfied with the run-of-the-mill product and decided to make his own, signed up for beekeeping classes in 2020 and became a professional immediately after.
“I noticed that it actually works well for urticaries. For us, daily contact with bees gave us great pleasure, and that’s why we continued,” he said.
In this summer, Chatzilias took care of 30 urticaries, which they placed on the roofs of seven athens areas, including a scene. ParthenonAbout 1.2 million bees in his urticar produced 500 kg (1,100 pounds) honey, weight of a large brown bear. Each batch was packed and nominated to its neighborhood.
Different taste of Athens Honey, he explained, comes from the proportion of eucalyptus, acacia and bitter orange in various areas of the city, as well as other vegetation. On the southern coast, for example, pine trees provide notes like a forest.
Urban beekeeping is neither new all over the world nor in Athens. Decades ago, Greek When they left the rural areas, the families brought the urticaries with them. But Chatzilia focuses on today’s beekeeping more intentionally and environmental implications, which resonate throughout the society.
One of the recent recruitments of Chatzilias, Agelina Chatzistavru, fell in love with the first bees, while she was a university student.
“I really liked the idea of my own being of my own,” he said on his roof with an acropolis scene. “If everyone can have a hive in an open space at their home, I believe it will change our environment on a large scale.”
Despite the increasing interest, the objections of fellow residents of their apartment buildings can prevent beekeepers. Urban bee compliesing by shaking hives to the roofs for the roofs for the spring before the winter sets, forcing them to shake.
“Fear with the lines of, ‘they can sting me, my children, my dog. What if I have allergies?” “In general, for the people of the city – because they have been bitten by nature for so many years – even something natural that happens (…) can provoke fear.”
He said that the continuous blooming cycles of different pollinators-friendly plants athens made an ideal setting to experiment with the bees leaving the roofs throughout the year, which he is doing the first time this year, he said.
“Even with a chaotic urban environment, which we have created, nature – or whatever remains in the city – still respond and can give life,” said Chaatzilias.