Gardening for the bees

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Most people think of bees as being useful to humans by creating honey. But here's a turnaround! This summer 120 million organic flower seeds have been sown in Europe to help the bees.

The European "Bees love Organic" campaign, launched in April by Netherlands-based Nature & More, has been concluded successfully. Hundreds of organisations and thousands of consumers participated in the distribution and sowing of 400,000 bags of bee-friendly flower seeds this summer. Thanks to all these helping hands, 120 million flower seeds were sown throughout European, including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and the UK.

More than half of the seeds were distributed with Nature & More organic fruit & vegetables through box schemes in German and Austria, such as the BioFrische Box. Many French beekeepers requested seeds to share out seeds at public events, while in Sweden a large group of students sowed a massive field of flowers and made video's to support the campaign. Individual consumer requests came in from a wide range of countries, including UK, Norway and Czech republic.

flowersforbees1In the Netherlands, one of the main events was the "Bee Cycle Path". Hundreds of people cycled part of a 1000 km long bicycle trail, to sow flower seeds along the way and transform the path into a flowering bee paradise. Children participation was also very high in the Netherlands; many schools applied. All participants were invited to send in photographs afterwards. Nature & More used some of these images to create a video and thank everyone who got involved. The video can be found here......

The "Bees love Organic" campaign was an initiative of Nature &More, the "trace & tell" trademark of Netherlands-based organic trader Eosta. Several NGO's participated: Bionext and the Bee Foundation in the Netherlands, Stiftung Blühende Landschaft in Germany and the Youth Initiative Program in Sweden.

 

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