Bee project up and buzzing

We now have around 10,000 busy, buzzing helpers: Beefuture has installed a beehive right next to our entrance. Around 10,000 bees are now hard at work, collecting pollen from our meadows and within a radius of approximately three kilometres. We are already looking forward to our first KREUL honey. With this project, we support the care of a bee colony on our company premises while learning more about the fascinating world of bees.

Through this initiative, we want to support the bee project organised by Müller and Beefuture and provide a home for a bee colony on our premises. Bees are not only fascinating creatures but also play a central role in pollinating plants. Special thanks go to our retail partner Müller, who got this wonderful idea off the ground.

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Working together for the protection of bees

We were delighted by the idea of this collaboration. Bees play an essential role in our ecosystem, pollinating plants and helping to provide food for many living creatures. Many wild bee species are endangered. Among the challenges they face are the loss of suitable habitats and insufficient food sources.

Our retail partner Müller has therefore launched a bee project together with selected companies, establishing and caring for bee colonies at various company locations. More information can be found here.

KREUL is delighted to be part of this initiative. Our company is surrounded by greenery and meadows. Here, we provide space for a beehive housing a honeybee colony cared for by Beefuture.

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A home for bees – right next to KREUL

The wooden beehive was installed on the KREUL meadow by Beefuture. Beefuture organises and manages bee projects in cooperation with companies. These companies provide space for beehives on their premises, creating additional locations for managed honeybee colonies. Beefuture is also responsible for looking after our bee colony.

Every two weeks, a beekeeper visits our bees, maintains the hive, extracts the honey and fills it into jars. The honey is the result of continuous, tireless activity. According to Beefuture, bees need to visit around five million flowers to fill a single jar of honey.

A small house with an ever growing population.

Before the bees could get buzzing and working on the KREUL meadow, they had quite a journey behind them; three hours from Wallenhausen in Swabia all the way to Hallerndorf in Franconia. Our bee colony is a docile young colony with a queen, who is marked in blue. It won’t produce any honey this summer as the bees first have to become acclimatized in their new home. The colony currenlty comprises 10 000 bees. Over the summer, the population will grow substantially and increase to around 50 000 bees. The next generation can already be found nestled in the filled honeycombs. The bees will hatch out after 21 days. At the end of August, the winter colony will hatch that will get the bee colony through the winter. We wish our new buzzy neighbours a good start in their new home on the KREUL meadow.