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Le api Wonderful gift of nature

There is a bee lying on a pink bud: it sucks and it goes. All in all, happiness is a little thing!

THE BEES

We all know the bee! Small insect with yellow and black stripes, flying from flower to flower, collecting the precious nectar and living in smaller companies called beehives. But not everyone knows that these small companies are actually something very complex and highly organized, to be considered the organisms in their own right and where the individual bees can be considered super cells of this organism. Maybe not everyone knows that the bee is the most active insect pollinator, so important not only for the reproduction of plants and then to the ecosystem, but also for agriculture itself. It’s no coincidence that Einstein said that if the bee were to disappear, man would have just four years to live.

THE BEES AND THE VINEYARD

The vine is a plant nectar and the bee can only offer it its pollen. However, it could turn out to be more attracted to the flowering herbaceous plants that grow naturally in the rows. It is not uncommon to find some bees busy foraging on the flowers to collect pollen. Therefore, bees are a fixture in the vineyard, and play a part in how we take care of our plants, by passing from flower to flower dispensing a bit of pollen that has been collected, providing some much-needed assistance in the production of the bunch of grapes. Recognizing the invaluable help of the bee, we will help preserve them by avoiding the use of pesticides in the vineyard, and taking care of our apiary.

OUR APIARY

It's located in the woods on the hill of Castelnuovo, near the Boboli vineyard. Here, our bees, housed in approximately two dozen hives created and decorated by us, collect the nectar and pollen of the acacias, chestnut trees and other vegetation blooms located in the slopes surrounding the town of Castelnuovo Magra. We package this wonderful gift by hand into jars of honey and pollen and vials of propolis, all a part of our Gea line.