{"id":390481,"date":"2024-07-02T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightsourcebp.staging.1int.co.uk\/?page_id=390481"},"modified":"2024-10-30T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T22:43:22","slug":"solar-honey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lightsourcebp.staging.1int.co.uk\/us\/responsible-solar\/environment\/agrivoltaics\/solar-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar honey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harvesting sunshine and honey<\/span> with our solar <\/span>farm <\/span>bees<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Our solar farms provide a SWEET opportunity for honey producers. We plant wildflowers under and around the solar panels, providing high quality habitat to support healthy and productive honeybees.<\/p>\n

Lightsource bp solar farms serve as safe, long-term homes for pollinators, often integrating agricultural practices like beekeeping to layer on additional environmental and agricultural benefits.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Pollinator populations are declining, but solar farms can help!<\/h3>\n

Pollinators like bees and butterflies are tiny but mighty creatures. They provide an incredible service, with <\/span>three-fourths of the world\u2019s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world\u2019s food crops depending on pollinators to reproduce<\/span><\/a>, according to the USDA.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, pollinator populations have been on the decline due to major challenges like habitat loss. As part of our <\/span>Responsible Solar<\/span><\/a> ethos, we are committed to increasing biodiversity at our solar projects and creating habitats for a variety and abundance of species, including honeybees. We carefully curate customized seed mixes and other vegetation so that our solar farms can serve as protected homes for pollinators and other wildlife under our <\/span>biodiversity framework.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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