SBA November Webinar 2025

SBA November Webinar 

The Arctic Beekeeper with Einar Johansen, Norway

20th November 2025 at 7.30pm

We're delighted to welcome Einar Johansen, our first online webinar guest this winter season. Einar is a sideline beekeeper based in Lofoten, Northern Norway, at 68° North. He manages 30 colonies in one of the world’s northernmost apiaries, where his bees must survive over seven months of winter confinement. The region is free of Varroa and other bee diseases. Aside from very limited queen imports for new genetics, he is self-sufficient. His Arctic beekeeping is shaped by extreme weather and long winters, requiring careful adaptation and timing to succeed in a very narrow biological window. His honey is primarily derived from willow, dandelion, white clover, lilac, fireweed, and heather.

Our webinars are free to SBA members and £2 for non-SBA members. 

We shall be using Teams software for this webinar and the meeting link will be emailed out to you before the webinar, so please look out for emails from newsletter@scottishbeekeepers.org.uk