Why is beekeeping booming in Berlin?
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s quite hip at the moment, people put up a hive on their balcony somewhere and think they are doing something for nature,” says Alfred Krajewski, 59, one of the volunteer swarm catchers. Berlin has more than 20 hives per square mile belonging to registered beekeepers, and an unknown number tended by people who are not registered, according to Benedikt Polaczek, who heads the city’s beekeepers’ association, which helps organise the swarm catchers. “We have too many people who keep bees who don’t do enough for their bees,” says Polaczek, who teaches beekeeping at the Free University of Berlin. Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events “There hasn’t been a year with the bees swarming like this – and I’ve heard this from my beekeeping colleagues, too – in a long while,” he says.
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