The canopy of the Honey Garden, string lights and the red-and-white silo chimney behind the trees

Dom kulture Silosi · the Danube bank · Belgrade

A thousand square metres of a city that hums

BeeCenter is a beekeeping and education centre in the Silosi, on the bank of the Danube. In the Honey Garden we bring together urban beekeeping, nature, education and experiences for children, adults and companies.

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1.000 m² of the Honey Garden

45 bee colonies

5.200 plants planted

1.500+ children through our programmes

01 What BeeCenter is

Behind the silos there was concrete. Now there is a garden.

The Honey Garden grew on the ground behind the Silosi that the GAIA Movement began returning to nature. In that new green space Dario and David Mardešić, brothers and beekeepers from Belgrade, built the apiary and the programmes that BeeCenter grew out of. Today the bees, the education and the events are all part of the same garden on the bank of the Danube.

Today there are wood-chip paths, a pallet amphitheatre, hand-painted wooden huts, a glass observation hive, the api chamber and the BeeFe bar.

Enter the Honey Garden

The pallet amphitheatre and the BeeFe bar in the Honey Garden, a wood-chip path with string lights above it

02 Experience BeeCenter

A suit, a hive and a tasting, in two hours

Guests put on a beekeeping suit and, with our beekeepers, step up to a hive and see it opened from close up. The glass observation hive, the api chamber and a honey tasting go with it. The programme lasts about two hours and you take part in every step.

A beekeeper in a white suit and veiled hat lifting a frame of bees above an open hive

Dive into Hive

Two hours: the suit, a live hive, the api chamber, a tasting.

The inhalation room in the api chamber: green armchairs beside white hives marked with a painted bee

Apitherapy

Breathing hive air and resting above the live hives.

The inhalation corner: an armchair beside a hive-table, a honeycomb shelf and a shuttered window

Book a session

Choose a treatment, a day and a time; the confirmation arrives at once.

Children in white beekeeping suits with hats and veils walking through the garden with a beekeeper

Families and children

Workshops, family days, Beekeeper for a day.

The api chamber from outside: a timber cabin with a red roof and a hexagon panel bearing the bee mark

The api chamber is a room built over live hives. You lie on the planks and, through the openings, feel the warmth, the sound and the vibration.

03 B2B

Team building, events and partnerships

In the Honey Garden we run team building programmes, training sessions, business events and Family Day gatherings, and with companies we also develop CSR projects and corporate gifts. Every collaboration is shaped around the company, the number of participants and the goal of the event. The garden holds up to 250 guests.

Team building

Beekeeping team building on real hives.

A business group standing in the green of the garden listening to their host, some holding beekeeping hats

Learning from bees

Bee a Team: business training inspired by the way a bee colony works.

A table laid for a wedding in the garden: white plates, glasses, candles and wildflowers in glass vases

Event space

The garden as a venue: up to 250 guests under an open sky.

A hive carrying the Apivita and El Pharma logos on its front, in the grass of the garden

CSR and ESG

Branded hives, planting, children’s education, bespoke projects.

A MadMed gift box holding two 230-gram jars of honey, printed with hexagons

Corporate gifts

Honey and bee products with personalised packaging for companies.

Children sitting in a row passing a frame with a piece of comb from hand to hand

Family Day

A family day for employees and their children, up to 250 guests.

04 Our largest project

The Hive of Knowledge, when nature becomes the classroom

The Hive of Knowledge brings the world of bees, of nature and of community closer to children through play and experience. We run the project with the Novak Đoković Foundation and the GAIA Movement, and more than 1,500 children from over 50 kindergartens have been through the programmes so far.

The programme is set up so that kindergartens can take part at no cost to parents, with the support of the project partners. Kindergartens join through the educational programme, and companies can support its growth.

About the project Support it as a company

Two boys watching bees in the glass observation hive a beekeeper is holding in front of them

05 Bee facts

Two things about a bee that are rarely known

eyes on a single bee: two large compound ones at the sides and three simple ones on top of the head.

light bees can see and we cannot: on a flower they read patterns invisible to the human eye.

Eight more on the blog

06 The garden in the evening

One garden, up to 250 guests and an open sky

Every photograph you see here was taken on a real evening in our garden. Take a look at the birthdays, weddings, cocktails, launches, panels and team days, and feel the atmosphere we create together.

An audience on white chairs watching a film on a screen stretched among the trees, at night in the garden — 02 Open-air cinema.

A choir in white sings in the garden at dusk, a keyboard player in front of them, bulbs above the path — 03 A choir at dusk, under the string lights.

A DJ at a pallet booth in front of a pink floral mural, in the garden at night — 04 Music in the garden, in front of the mural.

Guests standing on the garden path in the evening, a DJ in the painted hut, bulbs strung between the trees — 05 A book launch, guests in the garden.

The BeeFe bar: a timber shelter with benches and tables, hay bales and a painted wall behind them — 06 BeeFe, our own bar in the garden.

The strip moves sideways: drag it, use the arrows, or just scroll.

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07 Products · MadMed, since 2017

Honey and products from our beekeeping story

In the shop there are different kinds of honey, propolis, perga, royal jelly, pollen, beeswax products and gift boxes. For every product we state the origin, the composition and how it is used.

From the hive to a product whose contents and origin you know.

See the products

A jar of Belgrade Summer honey standing in front of an open hive full of bees

08 What people say, verbatim

„Wow. Wow. Wow. The best place in the city!!!”

Rastko PetakovićGoogle

„Neverovatan skriveni mali raj. Za svaku preporuku!”

Stefan MitrovićGoogle

„A fully immersive experience where you can see, hear, touch and taste so much in just 2 hours!”

Anna TsunskayaGoogle

They have already been here

09 Stories from the apiary

What the garden teaches does not stay in the garden

We write down what we do and what we have learned: urban beekeeping, biodiversity, working with children and with companies.

A guide holds a frame full of bees in front of a group in beekeeping suits, hives in the grass behind them

Education

Women in beekeeping: 30 new beekeepers took their first step

A course in the basics of beekeeping made only for women. More than 70 applied, 30 completed the whole programme and left with their own beekeeping gear.

For companies

A team building day that does not end with one more lunch out

Beekeeping team building for groups of up to 50, and the whole Honey Garden available to companies that want to run their own programme for up to 250 guests.

A girl being handed honey on a stick at a table of jars, a book about bees and a straw skep beside her

For companies

A family day the children will retell at home

A family day for companies in the Honey Garden: nature, bees, play, learning and the attractions of Silosi Belgrade, for up to 250 guests.

All the stories

Friends of the Honey Garden

Join a community that takes part in planting, education and actions for a greener city, and be among the first to hear what is happening in the Honey Garden. Membership is free.

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