Gwangju City to Recruit Participants for Citizen Beekeeping Experience Center Starting from the 29th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 28th that it will recruit 200 citizens on a first-come, first-served basis to participate in the experiential beekeeping farm starting from the 29th.

The citizen experiential beekeeping farm, which allows participants to experience beekeeping and observe the ecology of bees, is a highly popular citizen engagement brand project that has been promoted annually since 2016.

The experience will be held every Saturday from next month until July at the experiential sites in Eulim-dong, Gwangsan-gu, and Goseo-myeon, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do, where participants can directly engage in beekeeping education and honey harvesting.

The experience is operated by the Gwangju branch of the Korea Beekeeping Association, selected through a public contest process, and the participation fee is 100,000 KRW per applicant for hive rental, payable to the Beekeeping Association.

The honey produced from the hives will be distributed to participants up to a maximum of 10 kg per person.

Citizens wishing to apply can search for ‘experiential beekeeping’ on the city’s website under notices and announcements, then visit the city’s Life Agriculture Division from the 29th to submit their application in person or send it by fax.

Kim Hyun-jung, head of the city’s Life Agriculture Division, said, “The beekeeping experience will provide citizens, exhausted by COVID-19, with opportunities to experience outside the city, healing their emotions and expanding interest in nature as well as the sustainable growth of the urban beekeeping industry.”

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