Snapshot: beekeeping in London

Featuring chef Katja Tausig

Katja Tausig has cooked in London restaurants for nearly 10 years, forming close relationships with the farmers who supply her.

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After inheriting some beekeeping equipment from family, she decided to take a training course to put it to good use.

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She now breeds bees in her garden, so she can put hives on the same farms she sources from.

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‘The bees help pollinate the food I cook, allowing me to be part of a sustainable, circular food economy,’ she says. The honey, meanwhile, is sold at her local farmers' market.

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