- We want to spread the knowledge about the benefits of bees in the environment. And as soon as you have obtained a hive, you have directly helped the environment, ”says Krister Linnell, chairman of the Southern Vätterbygdens beekeeper association.

Educates around the benefits

The beekeeper association in Södra Vätterbygden wants to get more people and organizations to work with, partly to place the bee communities in Jönköping and the surrounding area, and also to educate more people on the benefits of bees and how to manage the bee communities.

An authority in Jönköping that is to have a bee community is the Swedish Board of Agriculture. There a beehive is to be placed on the roof of the newly built government house at Munksjön.

- If we hadn't had the bees, we would have had a very boring environment. We wouldn't get flowers or fruits. We should have to pollinate the flowers by hand, says Krister Linnell.

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Vlasta Haderberg, one of the growers in the Salladslunden colonial association at Råslätt in Jönköping, is pleased with the investment.

- It's the best idea that has come. We have so many flowers here and there are also trees that need the help of bees, she says.