The decreasing diversity of agricultural crops troubles not only landscapers, but also beekeepers and honey lovers.

The illustration from the book Neználek Goes to Sun City is somewhat reminiscent of an aerial view of the domestic landscape, which is illuminated in spring by neat yellow fields. And although this color fills us with optimism after a cold and gray winter, too much of a good thing is a bad thing.

Did you know that rapeseed covers an area in the Czech Republic roughly equal to 100,000 of Prague's Wenceslas Squares? You might think that at least beekeepers are happy about the yellow fields, because bees recognize this color well and don't miss the fields, but the reality is somewhat different.

"In the Czech fields today, we basically only find four types of crops, and so the pasture for bees is getting poorer year by year. And this is reflected not only in the variety of honey, but also in the health of the bee colonies," says Milan Špaček, our director. This year's production was also affected by spring temperature fluctuations and summer droughts "interspersed" with heavy rain showers. "Because of this, we are basically missing the yield from fruit trees, linden trees and maples this year. The extensive bark beetle calamity, in turn, is causing a shortage of honeydew honey," says Milan Špaček, describing the hardships of honey producers.

Beekeepers have enough honey from rapeseed, but that's not enough for the market. The good news is that thanks to imports, we can bring a little bit of exoticism from the shops along with a jar of domestic honey. For a greater variety of offers, Czech processors import honey from Europe and South America, so we have the opportunity to taste Czech flower honeys with an admixture of imported sunflower honeys, domestic forest honeys with an admixture of honeys from eucalyptus, oak or Yucatan forests.