Every year in Pazin, at the end of February, an international sales exhibition of bee-keeping equipment, products and conference take place. The case with the choice of beekeeper that is honeymaker is the same as with a café and your favourite coffee brand. You choose once and never change. In Istria is possible to taste same good quality of honey. But there are also many good beekeepers. Same of them are: An?elini, family Gržeti?, Hrvatin Boris, Datinjana Vinko, family Pilaj, family Jankovi? from Livade and many others. There is a long way from a bee to its honey. In Istria it all begins in April when beekeepers harvest fruit honey and dandelion honey which is extracted until May. Then the hives and beekeepers, like real nomads, move in search of locust trees that yield high quality and delicious honey. At the same time bees are diligently collecting sage nectar.
The next activity takes place in June when hives are transferred to areas rich in chestnut trees, which has become a very uncertain and modest source of honey. At this period there is no activity of bees in Istria, so the search for flower blossoms for the nectar takes beekeepers to areas of Gorski kotar, Kordun and Lika.
This best speaks of the beekeepers' nomadic way of life and their readiness to cover several hundred kilometres every seven days to reach the faraway hives just for a few kilograms of sweet honey. In mid-September the bees return home. Then they mostly sip the nectar from heather and other plants blossoming at that time.

The president of beekeeper's Association:
An?elini Ranko
Jakova Vol?i?a 14
52000 Pazin
tel: 098 254 426
email: andjelini@hi.t-com.hr

Secretary Association:
Željko Ravni?
Zagreba?ka 6
52000 Pazin
tel: 098 435 062
email: zeljko.ravnic@gmail.com