“Eden Renewables’ solar farms don’t just produce clean renewable energy – they will be producing honey too!
All our projects make the most of the land beneath and around the solar panels by sowing a mix of local, native grasses and wildflowers to provide habitats for pollinating insects, including honey bees.
If the site does not already have apiaries, we invite local beekeepers to establish them within the solar farm or on adjacent land.
For some years, beekeepers have been producing honey at most of the solar farms our team has developed in the UK. This year (2020) we’ve bottled our first batch of Eden Renewables solar honey from one of these sites, Park Farm in Leicestershire, produced for us by Nigel Collier of Temple Bees. “
read the entire article
source: Eden Renewables UK website 7 May 2020.