Green spaces or land, which implement pollinator-friendly ecological practices are awarded the title Bee Sanctuaries.

In a Bee Sanctuary, it is not necessary to keep farmed Bees. Through group activities such as awareness raising, educational talks, walks, citizen science initiatives, highlighting of excellent initiatives, dissemination of good practices, and more, Bee Sanctuaries connect individuals, communities and entities, inspire, generate new knowledge about the ecosystem and cultivate a shared awareness of our responsibility towards the environment.

In a bee farm - Sanctuary (with hosted colonies of bees in hives), as in nature, Bee colonies are not stressed, since the goal is not intensive exploitation or frequent transport of hives to chase nectar flows.

If you are interested in joining the Bee Santuary network or supporting the action, please contact us.

Stamata Sanctuary, Attica

Location: Private property

Our Bee farm - Sanctuary is accomodated at a private spot against the backdrop of a natural landscape, next to a stream and among organically grown vines, a chicken coop, a vegetable garden and a forest section.
Sustainable management is applied. Pesticides or herbicides are not used in or around the Sanctuary. Bees enjoy a natural diet and live peacefully, away from stress factors such as treatments, transport or intensive manipulations which aim to maximise production. The free life of Bees and other pollinators reverently follows the rhythms of nature. Bees take advantage of the opportunity provided to them and freely build their own wax, choose their own queens and number of drones, and swarm whenever they want. The Sanctuary also provides a home to Bees rescued from swarms. Sometimes Bee colonies are donated to good hosts.