Perho's Honey & CSA apple orchard

 Honey by Perho at Töölö and Malmi campuses

Two bee­hives where brought to the fifth floor ter­race at Perho in the spring of 2013. Dur­ing the first sea­son of 2013, Perho re­ceived to­tal of about 70 kg of honey. The sec­ond sea­son (2014) pro­vided about 110 kg of honey. In the late sum­mer of 2014, two ad­di­tional bee­hives were added to Töölö Cam­pus.

In spring of 2018, two bee­hives were also added to Malmi Cam­pus.  As of now, Perho Col­lege has bee­hives at both cam­puses, in Töölö and in Malmi!

Teach­ing kitchens and the Restau­rant Perho uti­lize ex­tracted honey and fresh hon­ey­combs in va­ri­ety of ways.

Bees pro­duce honey, but their pol­li­na­tion is per­haps even more valu­able. Bees are im­por­tant pol­li­na­tors for the va­ri­ety of crops, as well as nat­u­ral plants! The sea­sonal har­vests can be in­creased by up to 50% if there are bee­hives nearby.

Sea­sonal honey avail­able for sale at Restau­rant Perho

Community Supported Apple Orchard

Since the au­tumn of 2014, Perho has been pur­chas­ing six shares of ap­ples ev­ery year from Råbäck Gård com­mu­nity sup­ported ap­ple or­chard farm, in Es­poo. One share of sea­sonal ap­ples in­cludes fif­teen ap­ple trees—about 15 kg of ap­ples. The cost of one share is 40 eu­ros. (http://raback­gard.fi/ )

Ap­ple shares in­clude four va­ri­eties of ap­ples: Geneva Early, Nanna, Ru­bi­nola and Amorosa.

Stu­dents vis­it­ing Råbäck Gård ap­ple or­chard, in Es­poo