OPG Bronzi Bee

The Bronzović family has four members and is active in beekeeping since 2002. All the work is divided between Marinko and his wife Nataša, and seeing that they are the third generation of beekeepers in the family, they have high hopes for their sons Matej and Luka continuing the family business.

They actively keep about 100 beehives and move them to different pastures, in order to produce more honey sorts and thus more income. Their family farm also contains an object for extracting, bottling and storing the honey. This object is equipped in accordance with the EU standards, in order to meet the high food safety standards, and the object is registered in the Veterinary Administration as such.

They produce different types of honey such as flower honey, meadow honey, honeydew (honeydew, forest honey), heather, acacia and sage.  Most of the listed species are produced by bees collecting nectar from flowers in the Gacka Valley, and some species also originate from other areas, such as acacia, sage, and heather. In addition to honey, they also offer customers flower powder (pollen), “bee bread”, propolis drops, propolis spray, honey in honeycomb, honeycombs in honey, beeswax candles. A special place is occupied by honey-based products, i.e. honey mixtures, such as creamy honey, creamy honey with chocolate, creamy honey with hazelnuts and chocolate, honey spread with hazelnuts, immune - boosting honey, honey mixture with nuts and dried fruits, and lip balms.

All the honey sorts by the Bronzović family farm have a Quality certificate which they received from the Croatian agricultural agency: the honey from our homeland.

They also offer apiinhalation on their property. Apiinhalation is performed in an apiinhalation house, or apicomora, which is located next to the apiary itself.

In the apiinhalation house, there are 6 beehives with 6 expert apiinhalators. Their purpose is to inhale air that has been supplemented with microparticles of bee products, such as honey, propolis, fermented pollen, royal jelly, bee venom, and beeswax. Breathing in beehive air aids in the treatment of respiratory illnesses like pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis, inflammation of the front airways, and chronic lung diseases like COPD and asthma. It also helps in the treatment of allergies, migraines, and chronic headaches so as in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, stress, depression, and during the healing process following stroke.

Because apiinhalations enhance lung volume and soothe the body, they are particularly recommended for athletes.

In addition to apiinhalations, one area of the house is designed for anti-stress therapy; specifically, there is a bed where the users can completely relax and enjoy the calming hum of bees. Watch them hastily enter and leave the hives, frequently with pollen on their legs, while the aromatic scent of the hive and bees surround them, and all of this without fear because they are separated from the bees by a safety net.

In addition to their farm, products can be purchased on Wednesdays at the market in Otočac, as well as at all events organized by the Tourist Board throughout the year.