Wellness Warehouse Announces Partnership With Honeybee Heroes
Wellness Warehouse Announces Partnership With Honeybee Heroes. It has been reported that WELLNESS Warehouse has partnered with Honeybee Heroes in order to produce a new honeybee education initiative for the health and wellness company’s customers.
This partnership is set to show support to the conservation of honeybees. Customers who want to show support to this initiative can sponsor a Honeybee Heroes beehive through the hive adoption programme, giving a new home to up to 30 000 Capensis honeybees for R2 000. Honeybee Heroes founder and director Chris Oosthuizen told Independent Online that, “We have seen that consumers have an incredible capacity for impact when they make responsible food purchases. That’s why we’re so excited to partner with Wellness Warehouse to help spread awareness about the plight of the honeybees, and to educate their consumers about the importance of buying raw, local honey. Through this collaboration, we can merge our two communities to help save the bees and inspire thousands of South Africans to live an eco-friendlier lifestyle.”
Honeybee Heroes seeks to create accessible, sustainable opportunities for South Africans to protect and engage with the environment. The company is grounded in the education a conservation of South Africa’s unique Cape honeybee. Through its flagship Adopt-a-Hive programme, it is creating a direct pipeline for eco-minded individuals to get involved in South Africa’s species conservation efforts, by placing and caring for safe, permanent homes for South African honeybees on farms and private nature reserves countrywide on behalf of its sponsors. The company’s expert beekeepers manage the hives using strictly ethical beekeeping practices, encouraging organic colony growth for more healthy, happy honeybees.
Through its community-run micro-apiaries programme, Honeybee Heroes places honeybee apiaries on suitable private land and nature reserves across the country and train women from low-income communities to care for them. In doing so, the company is educating a new generation of women beekeepers, mentored by its expert apiarists in beekeeping best practices, who will be able to independently provide for themselves and their families.
