24. 7. 2023
The bees in Brumlovka are doing well. Twenty litres of honey were harvested from two hives
Last year, Passerinvest Group a.s. placed two beehives on the rooftop garden of the Delta building. The local diverse greenery in Brumlovka, parks and the nearby Krč Forest provide the bees with a diverse source of food. Thanks to these favourable conditions, the bees are doing well here, as evidenced by this year’s flow of spring honey. Twenty litres of flower honey were harvested.
Delicious honey from Brumlovka brought joy to the Letokruh Seniors Association, neighbours residing in Prague Brumlovka and it also serves as a prize for competitions for the public.
“We are very happy that the bees are doing well here in Brumlovka, which is evidenced by the amount of honey obtained. We worked with experts for a long time to choose an appropriate environment for the placement of the hives and it turns out that we chose correctly. Promoting local biodiversity is one of the goals of our long-term strategy and we believe that the bees will continue to thrive here. We are now further analysing the project and considering its further expansion in both the number of hives and the degree of education and support for beekeeping,” said Martin Unger, Technical Director of Passerinvest Group.
However, the benefits of bees are not limited by the boundaries of Brumlovka, but far surpass them. The bees based in Brumlovka contribute to the pollination of plants within an area of several kilometres.
One bee colony can be made up of up to 60,000 bees in summer months. The main bee products include propolis and honey, which is valued both for its taste and for its composition. It contains healthy substances, minerals and many vitamins, including B1, B2 and C. Honey is a traditional part of Czech meals and can be enjoyed with warm milk before bed, in various desserts, traditionally on bread with butter or just on its own.
The Czech Republic is among the top in the EU in bee breeding. Ranked per capita, more than 60 thousand breeders place us in the upper echelons of the European rankings, as does the number of bee colonies in relation to the size of the country. In the Czech Republic, over the long term there have been 8 bee colonies per square kilometre.
It is possible to see how the bees in Brumlovka are thriving on two web cameras:
What’s happening in front of the hive
The investor of this project is Passerinvest Group, the full service and operation is provided by Softech, headed by RNDr. Pavel Mach. The care of the bees is provided by experts from www.vcelynastrechach.cz.
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Kristýna Samková
Head of PR and Marketing department
Kamila Žitňáková
Crest Communications a.s.
PASSERINVEST GROUP, a. s.
Passerinvest Group (hereinafter Passerinvest) is a purely Czech builder and investor. The company was founded by Radim Passer back in 1991 and has since then acquired a lot of experience in the construction of office and commercial buildings, residential buildings and civic amenities.
Since 1998, Passerinvest, as a responsible urban developer, has primarily been connected with Brumlovka (BB Centrum) in Prague 4, which is one of the most successful and extensive urban projects not only in the Czech Republic, but throughout all of Europe. Another important project in the company’s portfolio is Nové Roztyly, a brownfield of the former slaughterhouses of the Interlov complex where, in the future, a place with pleasant housing with a large park should arise, complemented by services for the general public and an office function. The principles of urban construction and the long-term sustainable development of Prague and the Czech Republic are part of Passerinvest Group’s vision. Thanks to its responsible approach, Passerinvest has built a very good reputation both on a domestic and on an international level. This is not only to the credit of the quality of the realised projects and the high level of the provided services, but also to the sense of fair play, a customer approach and also its responsibility to the society and the environment.