Aménagement d'une miellerie

We are going to build and set up a honey house, a room where honey is extracted, stored in raw form, processed and packaged.

Project’s inception

2022 : Our farming journey began when we bought our farm.

Our aim is to produce honey and several fruits (grapes, plums and almonds) as well as having few animals (bees, chickens, sheep and horses).

Our lands are labeled as Organic. We have planted 3 hectares of grapes and an orchard of plums (1 hectare) as well as a large area of meadow (7 hectares). Our farm is also surrounded by 4 hectares of forest. We have also planted, all around the land, 2000 bee friendly trees and bushes.

 Our achievements since we started the farm:

- beekeeping of 200 hives for 3 years
- built 200 hives and 250 supers.
- harvested 6 types of honey
- Process honey into mead, honey-nut paste and honey biscuits.
- fully renovated our home and a large guest house (total 300m²)
- planted 8000 vines, 200 plum trees, 100 almond trees et 2000 trees and bushes
- set up a small shop at the farm
- set up a barn for our sheep and horse.

Our needs

After 3 years of beekeeping, we are ready to build our own honey house.

Up to now, we have been using another beekeeper honey house in exchange for working hours.

The honey house we are using is great but there are some disadvantages :

• no storage space for the supers full of honey
• It is set up for a left-handed person (I am right-handed)
   
• there’s no lifting machine for carrying the supers, which causes back pain
   
• Additional transport costs to get to the honey house
   
• impossibility to show the honey house to our clients when they visit our farm
  
   

As we don’t want to take a loan at the bank, we are hoping that our friends and network will help us by participating in our crowdfunding campaign.

Thanks in advance for your contribution. Kindly share this campaign with your friends who are fond of bees, honey or who might support an agricultural project that is not hurting the planet !

Budget overview

Total investment : 30.000€
Capital : 15.000
Crowdfunding : 15.000

In order to reach 15.000€ capital raising, we have set up 3 milestones:

1. Building materials (structure) 6.000€ :
2. Building materials (doors and windows)
3. Honey house equipment. 15 000€

Details of building materials:

• Walls (7 000€)
• Sliding doors x2 140 cm (2 650€)
• Windows (3 800€)
• Lights and air conditionning (300€)
• Floors and others supplies (1 100€)

Honey house equipment

• Uncapping of frame full of honey (8 250€)

• Spinner for uncapped frames (4 000€)

• Wax spinner (2 000€)
• Table inox 2m (400€)
• Sink Inox (500€)

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

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