Sowing Seeds of Change: How Biffa Bees Is Helping Us Grow More Than Just Wildflowers

At Project Apis CIC, we talk a lot about bees. But bees don’t thrive without the right environment. Healthy pollinator populations depend on healthy habitats—rich in wildflowers, trees, and biodiversity. That’s where our friends at Biffa Bees come in.

Thanks to their generous donation of wildflower seed packs and fruit trees, our community apiaries have been given a beautiful boost. And it’s not just the bees who benefit.

This partnership is helping us create more vibrant, welcoming spaces for people and pollinators alike. Because when you plant something with care, it tends to grow into something much bigger.

Who Are Biffa Bees?

Biffa Bees is the biodiversity and conservation branch of Biffa, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies. While they’re best known for their red bins and environmental services, Biffa’s sustainability work goes far deeper—supporting initiatives that restore habitats, increase biodiversity, and make nature more accessible to everyone.

Their ethos aligns perfectly with ours: improve the environment, engage communities, and leave things better than we found them.

What They’ve Given Us—and Why It Matters

Over the past few months, Biffa Bees has donated:

• 🌼 Hundreds of wildflower seed packs
  Used to create pollinator-friendly areas around our hives, school gardens, and shared community spaces. These native flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other vital species—while also bringing colour and life to underused patches of land.

• 🌳 Multiple fruit trees
  Planted across our apiary sites and community gardens, these trees won’t just provide food for pollinators—they’ll also give shade, beauty, and eventually, fresh fruit for the people who visit and volunteer at our spaces.

These donations have been spread across Gorleston, Bradwell, and surrounding areas, with more planting days scheduled throughout the year. Volunteers, children, families, and community members are all getting involved—trowels in hand, smiles on faces.

The Bigger Picture: Creating Living Classrooms

Every seed sown is part of a wider goal: to make our apiaries feel like “living classrooms.” We don’t just want to teach people about bees—we want them to experience the full life cycle of nature, from soil to flower, from flower to fruit.

Thanks to Biffa Bees, we can now offer even more hands-on learning opportunities for schools, home education groups, and visitors. It’s one thing to hear about the importance of pollinators. It’s another to plant a wildflower mix with your own hands, then return months later to find it buzzing with life.

We’ve already seen the impact this has had—children asking questions about plant names, adults rediscovering a love of gardening, and volunteers beaming with pride as their trees take root.

More Than an Environmental Win

Yes, this partnership helps the planet. But it also helps people.

Our apiaries are designed to be welcoming spaces for those who need them most—people dealing with anxiety, isolation, bereavement, or just looking for a way to reconnect. Planting sessions offer calm, routine, and purpose. Watching a sapling grow can be a quiet, steady source of hope.

When organisations like Biffa choose to support grassroots projects like ours, it makes a real difference. It turns unused land into habitat. It turns one small act into something that will bloom for years to come.

Looking Ahead

With more planting days on the horizon and new apiaries in the pipeline, we’re excited to continue working alongside Biffa Bees to grow these spaces—literally and figuratively.

Whether it’s through seed packs, shared sessions, or future habitat enhancements, this partnership is helping us build something resilient, beautiful, and deeply rooted in community.

And honestly, that’s something worth celebrating.

🌱 Interested in visiting one of our growing sites or getting involved in a future planting day?
Email us at info@project-apis.co.uk or check out our work at www.project-apis.co.uk

📸 Follow us on social media to see before-and-after photos, time-lapses of our wildflower patches, and updates from volunteers and local schools.

And of course—thank you to Biffa Bees. You’re helping us sow the seeds of something truly special.