Ditta Individuale Anna Orpelli

Bee Patient is a sustainable beekeeping activity aiming to produce honey in a pristine area in order to guarantee a pure and high quality product, taking always into consideration the environmental protection.

The play on words linked to the name “Bee Patient” was born after acknowledging that working with bees would have meant being actors not protagonists of a world with its logics, its dynamics, its balance. A world as complex as it is fascinating that we will never be able to fully understand. Hence the awareness of having to be patient. Patient is, in fact, the one who is not discouraged in the face of adversity, but accepts the challenges by building his knowledge day by day, learning, growing and improving. This is what drives us with dedication and enthusiasm in the production of our honey.

Sustainable beekeeping in a naturalistic oasis

The beehives are in the Zarda natural oasis of Settepolesini in Bondeno – Ferrara. This oasis is characterized by the presence of a large quarry lake that has been a place of extraction of inert materials such as sand and clay for over 30 years. The lake was called “Quaternary Lake” because the dug materials belong to the last glaciation, precisely, the geological period of the Quaternary (10-15 thousand years ago). The water of the lake is therefore, particularly pure. The lab tests, in fact, highlighted the presence of the Daphniae algae which can grow only in waters totally free of pollutants.