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The wild bee population is declining because there isn’t enough food for them. The Netherlands is mostly just grass with not many flowers or different plants for bees to collect nectar from. Honey Highway is working to change that by creating areas with flowers for bees to live in. We are doing this by working together with company’s and governmental agencies to create bee parks and flower patches in unused areas like roadsides, industrial areas and company estate. Bees are important because they help pollinate our food like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and herbs. To make sure bees can keep doing their job, we need to make sure there are more types of flowering plants for them to feed on.

for whom

Honey Highway works with major government agencies. Rijkswaterstaat, Provinces, water boards and Prorail, among others. They take their responsibility and cooperate fully with Honey Highway. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs and corporate companies have also discovered Honey Highway. Together we initiate and realize large projects for the bees.

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Rijkswaterstaat, Provinces, Water boards, Prorail, municipalities

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Corporates and brands

companies with estate

Successes

A LOT OF BIODIVERSITY

Honey Highway has largely changed the mowing specifications of the Department of Public Works, provinces and municipalities to: mow after 1 July. And Honey Highway has already sown over 500,000m2 of biodiversity-rich flower verges. These verges are self-sustaining. The perennial native species bloom mainly in summer and late summer. This is when it is toughest for bees and insects to gather food to make overwintering possible. Read how we ensure biodiversity development in this download. 

HONEY HIGHWAY CONCEPT

Honey Highway provides field visits, soil analysis, instructions for the green space contractor (how to prepare the soil), coordination and implementation of a project, delivery of flower seed mixture adapted to the soil type and sowing and monitoring of the bee paradise.

In addition, Honey Highway handles communication, PR and education around all projects. We organise an opening with directors, employees and school children. We give presentations at corporate events and staff meetings. Furthermore, we give practical lessons on ‘Save the Bee’ to schoolchildren.

Besides flower verges and fields, Honey Highway also creates bee parks at business parks. These parks provide year-round flowering of flowers, perennials, shrubs and trees. A low-maintenance concept and therefore also inexpensive.

honey highways Biodiversity
A4 Delft 1e bloei jaar
Delfland Dijken 1 hectare 2e bloei jaar
N15/N218 0,5 hectare Maasvlakte Stenen Baakplein 2e bloei jaar
Delfgauw Dijken 1, 5 hectare 2e bloei jaar
A7 Afsluitdijk-Joure 5 hectare 1e bloei jaar
N14 Mariahoeve 1 hectare 2e bloei jaar
N14 Mariahoeve 1 hectare 2e bloei jaar
Delfland Dijken 1 hectare 2e bloei jaar
Spoor Zutphen-Nijmegen 3 hectare 2e bloei jaar
A4 Delft 6 hectare 5e bloei jaar
N470 Pijnacker/delft 1e bloei jaar
A4 Delft Honey Highway 4e bloei jaar
A2 Utrecht 1 hectare 2e bloei jaar
N32 Leeuwarden-Wirdum 1 hectare 1e bloei jaar
A4 Delft 2e bloei jaar
A4 Delft Honey Highway 2e bloei jaar
Almere projectontwikkeling 1 hectare 1e bloei jaar
A4 Delft Honey Highway 1e bloei jaar
A4 Delft
N470 2e bloei jaar
N470 Pijnacker/Delft 2e bloei jaar
N213 2e bloei jaar
N196 3e bloei jaar
A2 Utrecht 3e bloei jaar
Centrum Rotterdam 1e bloeijaar
A4 Delft Honey Highway 3e bloei jaar
A4 Delft Honey Highway 3e bloei jaar

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