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honey to everyone

Honig für alle

seeding pollination bounty of nature

IDEA FEEDING THE PLANET, ENER- GY FOR LIFE Beekeeping illustrates our relationship with nature. We know that we depend on honeybees and honeybees depend on Honeybees are messengers of love to us. We are aware of the benefits of beekeeping: it offers nature. They are transmitter between (free) pollination service to guarantee diversity of fruit and plants that cannot move. With their pol- vegetable and the supply of honey as a healthy supplement lination service they bring out a great to a balanced diet. Landscapes of intense farming land, mi- diversity of colours, shapes, tastes and gration of people into cities and beekeeping management smells to nature. that requires treatment (pests/parasites) - this added up to TRANSLATION I believe we all act like those flowers, a reality in some areas in where there are not that need to be pollinated. We are all enough bees to do pollination service. The project „Honig individuals fighting for ourselves. We für alle“ wants to improve the food landscape for honeybees need a transmitter to form something (and other pollinators) in rural areas again and encourage greater than our own, single success. people to start a small-scale beekeeping enterprise to ensure This transmitter is called Love. Bee- pollination service and vivid communities. Beekeepers‘ har- keeping teaches us love for nature and vest will be sold to the municipality - with a proper price and reminds us to its power. Beekeepers be- distributed to everyone in the community that got involved in come messengers of love. Their work improving bee pasture for the hives. improves their environments in many magnificent ways: they transform the HONEY energy of the hives into energy that ma- honey is an excellent example of something kes our lives worth living: the harvest of fruits and vegetables and the harvest Honey is a sweet fluid made by honeybees using nectar coll- of honey is shared by the community ected from flowers. The superorganism holds 35 000 bees around the beekeepers. The stories of in the summer, and 10 000 bees in the winter. A summerbee the beekeepers entertain us and teach lives only 4 - 6 weeks, a winterbee around 6 months. One us. They will bind us to the neighbor- colony brings out 250 000 bees over the year and needs hood, the village, the landscape, the around 300 kg of honey to survive. To produce 1 kg of ho- TRANSLATION region. ney a colony will visit 3 million flowers and collect 3 liters of nectar. They travel 3000 meters around the hives to gather food.The taste of honey represents the diversity of flowers found in the area. A perfect food landscape starts flowering in February/March until late September. Every plant‘s nectar has its own taste; some are more bitter, some more sweet. Each honey represents the landscape its been made: every harvest is unique in taste and compostion.

POLLINATION PRACTICE PARTICIPATION TRANSLATION Pollination is the practice by Honeybees are faced with austere environments : Honig für alle will start at which pollen is transferred from pests (f.e. Varroa mite) and pesticides (intense farming the „Schlossgärtnerei“ in Gers- the male part of the flower to land) weaken the colonies; stress (moving colonies for walde, a village of 1000 in- the female part. This is essential pollination), enormous honey yields (commercial bee- habitants in the , a for the fertilization and repro- keeping) and high density of colonies in urban areas region in , North- duction of most of our plants. deteriorate the state of health. Nonetheless, urban are- east of Berlin. The garden will The relationship of honeybees TRANSLATION as are buzzing. It is the diversity of flora, that brings be used for beekeeping, smo- and flowers developed in such out a very interesting taste of honey. We need to teach TRANSLATION king fish, growing wine and TRANSLATION way, that they both help each people to choose bee friendly plants for their gar- setting up a small permacul- other. Flowers will be able to dens, along the roads, on community shared ground, ture farm (with chicken, sheep, reproduce and honeybees are on farmland, in industrial areas, at schools and kin- pigs). We want to teach how able to feed themselves by pro- dergardens, next to churches - basically everywhere to produce your own food, ducing honey out of nectar. within the villages. Every inhabitant that supports bee enjoy local taste, encourage colonies in a 3000 meter flight radius will be recognis- others to grow food and grow ed with honey that is produced of the surplus of nectar flowers. We want to work with provided. So honey will be recognized as a common nature and share our harvest. (Gemeingut). Everyone will be involved in improving We want to connect people of the food landscape. The municipality will purchase all urban areas with locals and the honey. Beekeepers will get a fair price for their we want to share the honey. product. They will distribute the pots to their neighbors, With the right composition of talk to them, get to know them, discuss the taste and bee pasture in the area we will experiement with flowers and tastes: the greater the harvest a unique honey. With diversity of flowers found around the hives; the more the buzz of the hives we will honey there is and the better the taste of honey, the transfom the community into a more people get involved in supporting the project. It vivid community. is about abundance!

TITLE COLLABORATION TIMELINE OF PROJECT ORGANIZATION ASSOCIATIONS OBJECTIVES Honig für alle - honey to everyone - Lola Randl, Film Tohuwabohu, founder 05 2015 - 10 2015 stadtbienenhonig was founded in 2007 - work with artists: Bienenbewegung Beekeeping is a part of agriculture where Projekt Schlossgärtnerei, Gerswalde getting started: multiplication of honeybee when I harvested the first pots of urban ho- (2012), Smart Systems (2012) „the farmer“ does not own the land. This ORGANIZATION - Marion Wörle, Grafik, Berlin colonies, settling in ney. I joined the bee club in Berlin and run - documentary film makers: Rosie Koch und is intriguing in our times: who provides the Erika Mayr, stadtbienenhonig - Herbert Lohnert, VERN (Verein zur Erhal- the club since then. We train people inte- Roland Gockel (Wildes Berlin 2013), Lola bee pasture? My great love is nature and tung und Rekultivierung von Nutzpflanzen 03 2016 - 12 2016 rested in beekeeping, organize talks, work- Randl (Schlossgärtnerei, Landschwärmer, her ambassador is a colony of honeybees. FIRST LOCATION in Brandenburg e.V) (Association to recul- 03 2017 - 12 2017 shops and monthly meetings and a market in process) My passion is in the field of nature experi- Schlossgärtnerei Gerswalde, tivate native seeds) Greifenberg, Ucker- in the summer to sell honey (stadthonig- - Slow Food Berlin (stadthonigfest since ence and how this changes the perception Uckermark, Germany mark fest). In 2012 my book was published: Die 2011) and the action of people. I believe networ- Project can take place in any rural area - Johanna Häger, Stadtbienen (Droemer&Knaur, München), - Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin (stadthonig- king and building communities is essential Permaculture, Gerswalde which discribes how beekeeping affects fest since 2011) to our communities, in urban areas and - municipality Gerswalde our lives and our awareness. in 2015 I‘ve - Markthalle 9 (Honigbar beim Stadtland- on the countryside. Urban areas flourish - local bee club Gerswalde/Brandenburg been chosen as one of the ambassadors food Festival 2014) - I want rural areas to flourish as well. I of the German Pavillion in the area „Bee love honey and I believe it belongs to our active“. essential diet because it is truely good for us. I wish, everyone has access to local honey.