14/08/2026
This May, we had 300,000 bees as our guests in the backyard of our office. This week we had the chance to watch Jan, the neighbourhood beekeeper, in action to pull the trays for this year’s honey harvest.
The frames were covered in wax and honey cell to cell. Fun Fact: The shape that is formed in these frames, i.e Hexagons never changes. Do you know why? A hexagon tiles a flat surface without wasting space, using the least wax to hold the most weight. Mathematicians proved that formally in 1999. Bees have built it that way for about a hundred million years longer.
We also tasted the uncapped wax honey, which is heavenly. In addition, the honey is extracted and spun, powered by centrifugal force that pulls the honey through the comb wall frames. These frames, after the extraction, remain intact, and the bees fill them in again next season.
An interesting realisation after was that our organisational setup with RainbowForest Solutions, GreenForest Solutions GmbH, and our subsidiaries reflects a beehive structure. We did not expect a beehive to explain our structure better than organisational charts.
We would like to thank Hotel MOA Berlin for inviting us to watch the “ MOA Honig Schleudern” and for collaborating with us by allowing us to house these bees.
[Nature, Conservation, Bees, Honey, Climate]
