We as Hobee, are a boutique family company specialised in quality beekeeping equipment sourced from sustainable forests. As environmentally friendly people, sustainability is a ‘must have’ for us. Well-managed, sustainable forests are integral to both our planet and the industry we work within. We help plant more new trees than are harvested for our products. To achieve this, we joined the national tree plantation programme called ” Breath for the Future” in Turkey organized by the General Directorate of Forestry and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. We received our certificate of contribution as can be seen in the picture (please see below).
Hobee commits that our products will only use timber obtained from known, legal and well managed forests to avoid contributing to deforestation and forest degradation and to respect the people and communities that depend on them.
All wooden equipment we sell, including items made from Cedar and White Pine, must adhere to the stringent requirements of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). This ensures that our products are sourced responsibly and sustainably. Our suppliers must continually demonstrate traceability and provide proof that the timber they use has been legally harvested and traded. In simple terms, we have complete knowledge of the journey our timber takes from the forest to our depot.
For example, our cedar products are limited in number because the harvesting of old trees is carefully regulated to allow space for younger ones to grow. As a result, we can only produce a certain amount of cedar beehives each year. Although pine is much easier to grow than cedar, we still work closely with experts who can verify the source of our pinewood.
Typically, forest products are challenging to trace because a finished product might include timber from different types of trees, and multiple products can be derived from a single tree. However, in our case, our finished products do not include mixed types of timber. We purchase the timber, oven-dry it (or sometimes sundry it) in our facilities, and then manufacture it into beehives and beehive equipment. This meticulous process ensures that our products meet high standards of quality and sustainability.
On top of participating to the national campaign we mentioned above, Hobee also started its own campaign that every time you buy equipment from us we will plant a tree for you. We agreed to support the local forestry department and a high school in Kastamonu to plant plenty of trees for our customers in the Western Black Sea Region where some of our equipment is made from. We are hoping to be able to email our customers a certificate for the tree they helped being planted with its accurate location. At the moment we helped trees planted in a small seaside town called Cide in Kastamonu. Therefore our customers can feel good when buying our equipment.
