For twenty years Nuran Eksi worked in the corporate sector. Now she lives in a wooden hut near the Turkish Black Sea coast and runs honey bee business. Now she wants to save the world
One day in June 2021, Nuran Eksi, sat in front of a few jars of honey. She sat there for hours – her hands folded, her demeanor relaxed, sea-shell beads around the right wrist and her curls resting on her shoulders.
“Harvesting honey means more than just extracting it from the combs. It is how I directly connect with nature, leaving my handprint on efforts to make our planet more livable,” she tellsEksi is one of dozens of small-scale beekeepers who are benefiting from a Turkish government programme to boost honey production and help self-made entrepreneurs flourish.
When she gets tired she goes into the shelter of the little hut she built herself using corrugated steel sheets and wooden logs, which she had painted in yellow and red with the words “If there are bees, there’s life” written on the front. She sits on her sofa, inspects her hives and sips tea out of a cup made of walnut wood.She has a little hut she built herself using corrugated steel sheets and wooden logs.
“I am in awe of the scene every time I look at it. It’s a meticulously organised society of thousands of bees working for a common goal. There are worker bees making honey, the queen laying eggs and hundreds of male drones on the job of mating with her.”She uses smoke to calm the bees in one of the boxes before removing the lid. / Photo: Nuran GunduzIn Türkiye, beekeeping is something of a family legacy where one generation passes on the know-how to another.
Taken mostly at breakfasts with a spoonful of cream, flower honey, pine honey and highland honey is a staple on many Turkish dining tables. “A single hive in my farm could previously produce as much as 30 kilograms of honey. Nowadays, the output has come down to a mere seven to eight kilograms mainly due to climate change,” she says.The flying eco-warriors
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