the relexa hotel in Berlin offers beekeeping partnership
Bees in danger
Due to monocultures in agriculture there is often a lack of the necessary plant diversity, which offers the bees an adequate habitat. Climate change and the use of pesticides also have a negative impact. A decline in the bee population is the worrying consequence, which has been observed more and more in recent years.
Without bees, not only would our plants be threatened, also the bees make a great contribution to agricultural production by pollinating the flowers of cocoa, vanilla, passion fruit and so on and so forth.
The percentage of crops we’d lose without bees: 100% Almonds, 90% Apples, 90% Blueberries, 90% Cucumbers, 80% Cherries, 70% Watermelons. (source: https://thehoneybeeconservancy.org)
But what can we do?
The relexa hotel Berlin started a “partnership” with Nathan Gardner two honeybee hive.
When it comes to honeybees, you probably wouldn’t imagine that in the middle of a city a beehive could exist. Berlin is so green that the flying humming honey producers can find enough landing spots in the urban jungle to collect delicious nectar for their sweet yellow substance.
Since 10th july 2024, we have had very special guests at the relexa hotel in Berlin: two bee colonies have found a new home on the roof of our kitchen in the middle of one of our idyllic courtyards. In the first two weeks, the busy nectar collectors have set up their new surroundings. The beehive, that was installed by beekeeper Wolfgang Zell, only consisted of the "living room and bedroom". Later the hive received “store rooms” to make sure the bees had enough space to collect the precious honey. These were completed by May 2019. Our two bee colonies now had enough room to fill theses chambers.
