Even though many of us doesn't want to a believe, but it is a fact, urban honey is a healthy choice! Everybody who likes honey and wants to contribute to their own local nature, should buy his/her honey at the local beekeeper.

 

In the urban greenspaces there is hardly any large scale usage of pesticides and herbicides, consequently urban-honey deserves a healthy reputation. Here in the urban surrounding with its many gardens, that offer a wide range of flowers and blooming trees, the bees find a sound supply for the hive and for the production of a surplus of honey.

 

This urban biodiversity is the key for a well-balanced diet for the hive and a honey with an interesting taste. As a side effect the neighbours orchard is getting pollinated and when it comes to fruit trees

our bees are good for 75% of the total pollination service!

 

Due to the agricultural industrialization and the low diversity of crops, the majority of landscapes can only offer sufficient nectar & pollen for a short period of time and this often connected with a very low plant diversity. At many places the countryside has unfortunately become a desert-like surrounding for our bees and other pollinating insects.

 

We know shockingly little about the origin of our supermarket honey. Do we really have to import

honey from China of South America as it is still a common practice?

By doing this all pollination services stay in the exporting countries, a catastrophy when we realize that a 100 years ago there were still more than 4 millon bee hives in Germany, nowadays reduced to less than a quarter.

 

Currently, our bees are facing a hard struggle. Honey bees or wild bees, there is a wide range of agents (use of herbicides, pesticides & funigicieds, agricultural intensification & industrialization etc.) that are all partly responsible

for the decline of our bee populations. 

Especially the combination of these factors show an even larger negative impact on bees. One of the main culprits is the Varoa mite. An untreated hive quickly becomes overcrowded by the mites and will lead in short time to its collapse. The winter bee generation is not able to found a strong basis for the next season, is more susceptible to diseases and if it survives  until spring, it's high numbers of mites can spread to other hives.

 

 Support your local urban bee keeper! You are contributing to nature conservation and direct improvement of the urban green spaces and the distribution of local products.

You can also just enjoy this unique taste of this part of the city.