Approximately 2200 people visited this year edition of the Honey Festival in Kozloduy. The event took place on the 17th and 18th of February 2017 and was organised for a ninth consecutive year by State Enterprise Radioactive Waste.
With wishes for well being and success and with appreciation for the support of the initiative, the Executive Director of SERAW – Mr. Dilyan Petrov opened officially the Celebration. The Mayor of Kozloduy Municipality – Mrs. Marinela Nikolova, as well as the Chairman of the beekeepers association – Mr. Svetoslav Tsibrov, also greeted the participants.
For another year the organization of the event was supported by young volunteers from the Centre for Personality Development Baraka as well as representatives of the Association Women in Nuclear – Bulgaria. A group of children from Hristo Botev High school of Kozloduy expressed their original greeting with an artistic performance.
The exhibition was attended by 24 producers of honey and bee products, wild berries jam, herbs, certified cosmetics based on bee honey, makers of handmade items from natural materials, recycled paper, wood, textiles and felt. A book stand with specialised literature created additional focus during the two-day exhibition. Part of the accompanying programme was a lecture on Herbs – way to health and beauty held by Mr. Emil Elmazov – Chairman of the Union of herbalists in Bulgaria.
The youngest participant – Lukan Lukanov from the village of Lehchevo was among the debutants of the Honey Festival 2017. The fifteen years old beekeeper has already two years of experience and cares for 11 hives and this is his first time to be included in an exhibition. The young man takes his work very seriously and devotes to it all his free time from school. He said that he loves bees “because I like how they solve their problems – they gather and make a common decision – as a team”.
