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A holiday at the Bio Chalets Alpegg or at the Talsenalm in Waidring – home to the Alpegg Demeter Honey Factory.
Alpegg Honey Factory – Tyrol’s first Demeter-certified beekeeping business
Austrian Demeter honey from a biodynamic beekeeping operation
Big news from the Alpegg Honey Factory: The host of Alpegg Organic Chalets and beekeeper Roland Defrancesco is now the first and only certified Demeter organic beekeeper in the whole of Tyrol! With this special certification, our honey production facility stands for the highest quality and sustainable beekeeping in accordance with the strict Demeter guidelines. Enjoy 100% pure Demeter organic honey, produced in harmony with nature.
New highlights from Alpegg Honey: Sustainable and special!
Discover our new products from Alpegg Honey Workshop! As well as the delicious Demeter honey , we now have a new addition to our range:
* The crackling candle : With a wooden wick in an elegant ceramic cup – creates a cosy crackling sound and makes for relaxing evenings. Price: €32.00
* The New Year’s Eve wax-pouring set: your sustainable alternative to lead pouring. 100% Demeter-certified beeswax – perfect for an eco-friendly New Year’s Eve fortune-telling session and reusable time and time again. Contents: 5 hand-poured wax figures, a beeswax tea light, and a wax-pouring spoon. Price: €15.00.
Look forward to natural products that combine tradition and sustainability. Available from the Alpegg Honigmanufaktur shop, Alpegg 13, 6384 Waidring.
Alpegg Honey Factory, run by the Defrancesco family in Waidring
In 2020, Roland Defrancesco, host of the Bio Chalets Alpegg, the Alpegg Honey Factory. The organic beekeeping business now comprises 15 bee colonies, which are kept in Waidring in the heart of the Kitzbühel Alps. By distributing the bee colonies across the four best apiary sites in this Tyrolean climatic health resort, the honey acquires an incomparably aromatic flavour. The locations include the Alpegg Organic Chalets in the town centre, the “Steinbruch” near a moorland area, the "Struberer Bienenalm", and the Talsenalm at a good 1,000 metres above sea level. At the Talsenalm, you’ll also find a special bee tree called the Schiffertree.
The finest Demeter honey from Tyrol
What an honour! We are absolutely delighted to have won the gold award at the 12th Tyrolean Honey Awards 2023. Roland Defrancesco, our host and beekeeper at Alpegg Bio Honigmanufaktur, is more than just a beekeeper. He is a visionary, a protector of bees and their biggest fan! His expertise and dedication make each of our honeys a masterpiece of nature. A heartfelt thank you to all our bees, whose hard work brings us the delicious flavours found in our multi-award-winning honey.
Our Demeter honey is among the very best in the whole of Tyrol. The quality, flavour, purity and appearance of our first-class organic honey have even won over Tyrol’s honey experts. In 2021, our organic beekeeping business was awarded the gold medal with the maximum possible points for our unique organic honey from Waidring. At the awards for the best honeys in Austria , our forest honey achieved the maximum number of points in the categories of taste, sensory evaluation and consistency. It only narrowly missed out on the overall victory due to the assessment of the label design and was awarded the silver medal.
In 2022, organic beekeeper Roland Defrancesco completed the Demeter Austria course and has since been working with his bees according to this holistic, sustainable and symbiotic philosophy. Enjoy a delicious slice of honey on bread every morning during your break at the
Bio Chalets Alpegg, made from the fine honey of our hard-working bees, which are reared using biodynamic methods. target="_top" title="Bio Chalets Alpegg">Bio Chalets Alpegg every morning, a delicious slice of bread with honey, made from the fine honey produced by our hard-working bees, which are kept using biodynamic methods.
Demeter honey range and Demeter bee products from the gold-award-winning honey producer
- Demeter Forest Honey 250g | 500g | 1,000g
- Demeter beeswax candles
- Christmas and Christmas tree decorations made from Demeter beeswax
