Tornyossy Apiary
Country of origin: Hungary
Contact person: Csaba Tornyossy
E-mail: csaba@mehbarat.hu
Website: https://www.mehbarat.hu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mehbarat/
As for his profession, Csaba Tornyossy is an IT specialist and keeps bees as a part time job.
He completed an apiary course in Gödöllő in 2010, and since 2012 he has been giving lectures to his own trainees. He had always been cultivating an interest in social insects and that’s why he started working with bees.
Each product from Honey Heaven embodies a taste of nature, a touch of love, and an aroma of harmony, leaving customers longing for more. The quality of their honey dough mixture is verified using an ancestral method dating back to 1757: a fresh egg, laid that same day, is placed on top of the mixture. If it remains on the surface without sinking, it signifies the perfect quality of the Perger honeybread mixture.
Mr. Tornyossy considers beekeeping training a very important activity. Since 2015, he has been teaching students of phytopathology at his Kamaraerdő site. He also gives presentations to young children on the life and importance of bees and participates in the work of the several children’s summer camps located close to his site. The majority of his audience in these camps come from the 10-12-year age group.
He is committed to beekeeping and teaches the related skills as well as the language of bees to people who will later become beekeepers themselves.
As a prominent representative of urban beekeeping, he participated in the Accor Planet 21 sustainability and environment programme, launched in 2019, as a cooperation partner specialised in beekeeping. In this programme, Mr. Tornyossy co-operated with hotels and put out hives around their premises. The honey produced was served for breakfast to the hotel guests, and was also available in hotel shops in distinctive packaging. Further implementation of the initiative was hampered by the Covid epidemic.
While the diverse trees in urban parks could serve as excellent bee pastures for honey production, a practice widely acknowledged and applied in Western European countries and known as urban beekeeping, its legal regulation in Hungary has not yet been sorted out. Urban beekeeping could also be combined with various tourism programmes.
The problems of global warming are also affecting beekeeping. The last 10 years have brought many changes to which both bees and beekeepers must adapt.
Digital skills have also become increasingly important in beekeeping, as has the use of artificial intelligence. Mr. Tornyossy is currently working together with ELTE on a related development project.
He is an exemplary figure when it comes to social responsibility, never charging a penny for sharing his knowledge and experience with the next generation of beekeepers.
