Barbagillo Apicoltura di Santi Gilles

Utopia become reality "I was looking for the perfect society and I found it in bees". It all began on a grey day at the end of winter 2011, when I exchanged ideas with Fabio, a dear friend and colleague of mine at the time, on what could be invented to escape from "those 4 walls". So it was that in the spring of that year I decided to break the mould and look for a beekeeper in the hope that he could teach me the basics, and that's how I found Valerio, who passed on his passion. The following year, still followed by Valerio, I bought my first families of bees and the necessary equipment to start this wonderful adventure. In the following years, through ups and downs, I gradually increased my knowledge and the number of hives until the end of November 2016, when I decided to abandon the permanent position to devote myself exclusively to beekeeping. In 2017 the company "BarbaGillo Apicoltura" was born thanks to the support of my wife Silvia and my family who have always encouraged me. In 2019, another step was added: the company went from conventional to organic for a more sustainable management of breeding and to ensure a higher quality of our products. I currently run 100 hives, practising nomadism in the Bergamo plain and then moving up the Brembana Valley to the Orobian Pre-Alps. Depending on the season, I produce honeys of wildflower, lime, chestnut, acacia, rhododendron and ........