Producers
Žarko Šnajdar
beekeeper · honey producer
Potok, Municipality of Kostel, Southeast Slovenia, Slovenia
Čebelarstvo in predelava lesa, Žarko Šnajdar s.p. (former registered business name; deregistered 28 February 2023)
Žarko Šnajdar is a beekeeper based in Potok, in Slovenia’s Municipality of Kostel. His range includes honey, comb honey in honey, and other honey products. He is part of the producer group for Kočevski gozdni med, a protected-designation forest honey. The available evidence supports the regional origin of that named honey, but not the precise harvest location of any individual jar.
About the Producer
A little history
The former sole-proprietor business, “Čebelarstvo in predelava lesa, Žarko Šnajdar s.p.,” was deregistered on 28 February 2023. Beekeeping sales and exhibition activity continued after that date: he supplied honey at a Kostel event in December 2024 and was listed as an exhibitor offering honey and bee products in 2026. The legal and operating form after deregistration has not been established from the public sources reviewed.
How They Work
Beekeeping in practice
A small named beekeeping operation selling honey, comb honey in honey, and other honey products, represented through local tourism, municipal events, and agricultural trade fairs. Its scale, ownership structure, apiary count, and exact legal form after 2023 have not been verified.
Potok, Municipality of Kostel, Slovenia
Published as the location for Čebelarstvo Žarko Šnajdar by the local tourism office and in the 2026 trade-fair catalogue.
Kočevski gozdni med protected-designation production area, Slovenia
Šnajdar is named in the Kočevski gozdni med producer group. The European protected-designation documentation states that origin control covers beekeeper/apiary locations and that the production region is bounded in part by the Čabranka and Kolpa rivers. This supports participation in the designated regional system, not the location of every apiary or every harvest.
Kostel, Slovenia
The Municipality of Kostel identified Šnajdar as a provider of honey and honey products at a local December 2024 market event; the newly opened Kostel tourist-information centre also listed his honey and comb honey among local products.
Products & Specimens
What connects to this producer
Products listed by the Producer are kept separate from specimens held in the Collection.
Kočevski gozdni med (protected designation of origin / ZOP)
Floral source: Forest honey; the reviewed producer-group and certification records do not establish a more detailed botanical or honeydew composition for Šnajdar’s individual lots.
Documented origin: Kočevski gozdni med protected-designation production area, Slovenia
Origin detail: Region
Šnajdar appears on the 2023 producer-group member list of Združenje Kočevski med. A certificate appendix issued 12 November 2020 also named him among producers meeting the specification for Kočevski gozdni med ZOP; that appendix stated validity to 1 December 2022 or until amended. No physical-specimen metadata or lot-specific label was supplied, so this record must not be used to assign the PDO origin to an unidentified jar.
Honey
Origin detail: Unknown
Kostel’s tourism listing documents honey in the producer’s offer but gives no varietal, floral, or harvest-origin statement.
Comb honey in honey
Origin detail: Unknown
Kostel’s tourism listing documents “satje v medu” (comb honey in honey) in the producer’s offer, without a floral or harvest-origin statement.
People
People connected to the work
- Žarko Šnajdar Beekeeper and named producer
Practices
How they work
- Participation in the Kočevski gozdni med ZOP producer system is documented historically and through a subsequent producer-group list; current certification of an individual lot was not verified.