Beefuture - Our bee colony

The worldwide death of bees can no longer be denied. In Germany alone, the bee population has already shrunk by half. A worrying development. The Lößnitz foundry has addressed the issue together with the beefuture company.

Without bees, our ecosystem has no future. More than 80 percent of native flowering plants depend on pollination by bees. It would be unthinkable if the yellow-black insects were to disappear - our lives would change radically. Reason enough for us to think afresh and tackle this problem effectively together with beefuture boss Frank Weiß. The foundry feels it has a responsibility to contribute to more biodiversity.

Why are bees dying today? Unfortunately, the reasons are manifold. Introduced diseases and parasites, which are now also ravaging Germany due to climate change, are factors, as is the increased use of aggressive pesticides. Monocultures in agricultural cultivation, the disappearance of wild green spaces and spaces for bee colonies do the rest. To fill a jar of honey, bees have to fly about 150,000 kilometers, which means they have to circumnavigate the globe about three times and visit about five million flowers along the way. Since a bee can travel 8,000 kilometers in its lifetime, it is a whole flock that travels in the air for one jar of honey. The life span of a worker bee is about 20 days to 6 months. A queen bee can live from 3 to 5 years.

Together, we are strong to address the progressive death of the bee.

To hold a filled honey jar in our hands and to be able to see that our bees are satisfied means for us: lived social responsibility and a visible respectively tasty sustainability concept.

At the end of July, the beefuture team harvests the honey from the foundry in Lößnitz, which is filled into special jars and can be given as gifts to employees and customers.