HumbleBee Housing Project

HumbleBee Housing Project Building homes for the honeybees so they can focus on the essentials, which is flying around licking

For the last three years we have donated 1% of our annual sales to the protection of old-growth forests through Finnish ...
29/08/2026

For the last three years we have donated 1% of our annual sales to the protection of old-growth forests through Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation.

🌲Happy Finnish Nature Day! 🐿️🌳

10/07/2026

The rooftop of is buzzing with personalities! Here you can see a worker bee returning home with blue “pollen pants” and her friends busy organizing the storage to receive all the nectar that is currently flying in. 🌸🌼🌻

Next door in the wild bee hotel there are some mason bees hiding in their tubes and on the other side we are greeted by a couple of friendly bumblebees 🐝🐝

All these bees are doing a favor to the surrounding nature by pollinating a great variety of plants and in the process of it collecting data that can be used to study urban biodiversity 🌱

Oh and the honey bees are also making some pretty sweet ultra-local honey that can be bought from the downstairs café in the autumn 🍯

HumbleBee was featured in HS – Helsingin Sanomat today! 🐝 The piece takes a practical look into rooftop beekeeping, cove...
16/06/2026

HumbleBee was featured in HS – Helsingin Sanomat today! 🐝
The piece takes a practical look into rooftop beekeeping, covers the role of honeybees in urban environment and why honey really is just a “sticky byproduct” for us.

Some key takeaways:

Honeybees spend their days slurping nectar from flowers. Wasps are the ones causing trouble on terraces and crashing bbq parties 🐝

Bees can help us collect valuable data to support research on urban biodiversity and resource sharing between different bee species 🧬🔬

Its not a good idea to go digging into a beehive on a rainy day, especially if you forgot to cover your ankles 🙅‍♂️

Some great ways to help wild bees in the cities are creating habitats with brushwood fences, leaving out decaying wood in green areas and maintaining diverse wildflower meadows 🪵🌷🌻

On the World Bee Day its good to remember that although the honeybee gets a lot of well-deserved attention, it’s just on...
20/05/2026

On the World Bee Day its good to remember that although the honeybee gets a lot of well-deserved attention, it’s just one piece of a much bigger picture.

There are over 20,000 species of wild bees worldwide, many of them specialising on doing pollination work that honeybees simply can’t. These bees don’t produce honey or live in sophisticated societies but their humble contribution is what keeps ecosystems flourishing.

Today we want to introduce our two new colleagues who will be residing in our managed wild bee hotels, providing pollination service and collecting biodiversity data from the environment.

On the left is the Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis) who seals it’s nesting tubes with actual clay and is many times more efficient pollinator than the honeybee.

On the right, still shy in its cocoons, are the Willowherb Leafcutter Bees (Megachile lapponica) who are fantastic interior decorators as they line their nesting holes with perfectly cut pieces of leafs that provide a cozy home to hibernate in during the winter months.

Who is your favourite wild bee character? 🐝

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Korkeasaari
Helsinki
00570

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