Bartny Kąt – Beekeeping Heritage Site in Kozienice Forest

A beautiful place to relax. On one of the trees you can see an old beehive, made of tree trunk.

Tourists visiting the Kozienice Forest District and a tourist site devoted to the history of beekeeping in the Kozienice Forest, the so-called "Bartny Kąt" may meet with a surprise.A few years after the bee monument was set up in this place, it began to require maintenance. The conservation works were carried out by the author of the sculpture, Mr. Mirosław Dziedzicki, for which we are very grateful.We invite you to see the bee monument in a new look.We would like to take this opportunity to inform you about other activities carried out by the Forest Inspectorate as part of the "Bees return to the forest" program.To the honey bee log, which was exposed in Bartne Kąta, we added two additional logs, which are waiting to be colonized by wild bees. If this does not happen, the logs will be colonized with bee colonies brought especially from the area of the Kampinos Forest.The forest inspectorate also continues activities related to the supply of honeyflow, ie the organization of a flower meadow and a "firehouse" composed of honey-bearing bushes. Other actions taken by beekeepers are also very much appreciated, consisting in changing the dates of care treatments taking into account the needs of beekeeping (e.g. changing the dates of weeding the quarters in a forest nursery, enabling bees to use flowering "weeds", e.g. dandelions, postponing early cleaning treatments to be used by bees to use flowering shrubs e.g. hawthorn, ivy).

Nice and interesting place in the middle of the forest. In addition to a large monument showing bees, there is also an information board describing the history of beekeeping and Bartering in the vicinity of the Kozienicka Forest.