Self-sufficiency: "The own garden is not the essential!"

The property on which Katharina Sützl lives with her husband Wolfgang in Elixhausen, north of the city of Salzburg, is not exactly huge at around 570 m² and offers only limited gardening possibilities. But for the trained hairdresser, self-sufficiency does not mean that you have to grow everything yourself anyway: The key, she says, is to have a good network so that you can get all the good basic products regionally. "Having your own garden is not the most important thing," she stresses, but it can't hurt to be able to do some things yourself. Katharina Sützl is now a certified herb and self-sufficiency educator and offers courses that go far beyond planting vegetables.

Sützl swears by Multikraft products in a wide variety of areas, such as Roots in the garden, eMC® cleaner for cleaning, Multi Impuls, Manju and the probiotic bioemsan Naturgesundheit for her own body. But of course also for bee health. "We have 30 bee colonies and so far have never had any problems with bee diseases or winter failures," says the beekeeper, who tries to treat her hives as gently as possible to prevent the Varroa mite. "In addition, we strengthen the bees by spraying EMa on the approach board and in the hive nappy and add it to the feed in summer when we do the feeding after the honey harvest, because bees have lactic acid to process and Effective Microorganisms promote bee health."