It is if you claim more than happened. Adopting hives supports a beekeeper and teaches your people something about bees. It does not save wild bees, it does not offset anything, and it does not make your company “biodiversity-friendly”. Since 27 September 2026 the EU bans generic green claims a company cannot prove. So we give you the evidence and a wording guide that says what you can and cannot write. Report exactly what happened, and it is not greenwashing.
Where the hives are, who keeps them, whether the money is traceable, whether the colonies existed and what happened to them, who attended the training and whether they learned anything, and who signs for all of it. The pack answers each of these. See a sample before you buy.
Yes, as a voluntary action described with evidence. We map it to GRI 3-3, 404-1 (training hours), 204-1 and 203-2, and to the matching lines of the EU voluntary standard for smaller companies (VSME) and ESRS. We do not map it to GRI 101 (biodiversity): honey bees are kept animals, and that disclosure is about something else. The full mapping.
Targets 2.3 (small-scale food producers get paid) and 12.8 (people learn to live in harmony with nature). Not Goal 13, not Goal 15. Why.
Off-site hives earn no points in any of them. The session may count as one WELL education session; the reviewer decides. The honest page.
The session is online, in English or Greek, so people in different offices and countries join the same session. It is interactive: people talk, ask and argue. A quiz before and after shows what they learned, and you get the attendance list and the results. What happens in it.
It is a session, not an outing. No bee suits, no honey tasting, no escape room. People leave knowing why a colony can depose its queen, why some bees ignore a signal, and what that has to do with their own org chart. That is what they talk about afterwards.
No. Most companies adopt hives in our mountain apiaries in Boeotia, from ten hives. Companies in Attica can also have hives on their own roof, from two hives; the beekeeper looks at the roof first.
The mountain apiaries are working sites with no facilities for visitors. A few people from your PR team can visit with the beekeeper, in bee suits, as an extra: price on request, because it depends on how many come, where the bees are at the time, and the season.
From the mountain hives, no: the price is for the hives, the photos, the session and the pack. From hives on your roof, maybe: they are there for pollination, so honey is not guaranteed. In a good season we bring it to your office as comb.
European providers publish prices from about €150 to €2,500 per hive a year, and what you get for it varies from a certificate and photos to sensor data. Ours is €830 per hive a year in the mountains (from ten hives) and €3,145 on your own roof in Attica (from two), excluding VAT. The difference is what is in the box: the session for your team, the reporting pack, colony records, a signed statement, and a beekeeper your auditor can call. All prices.
Ten hives in our apiaries, two on your roof. One year at a time. The bees are active from March to early October; the session and the pack come within the year.
Yes. Download the sample pack: the PDF and the Excel data file, filled in for a company that does not exist.
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