The Juice Museum hosted another educational activity as part of the international project “Busy Bee.”
Apple blossoms and bees form a perfect symbiotic relationship: apple trees provide bees with vital food sources (pollen and nectar), while bees perform cross-pollination, without which apple trees would not be able to produce fruit. When a bee discovers a good apple orchard, it returns to the hive and performs a special dance to indicate the direction and distance to the flowering trees for the other bees.
To produce 1 kg of honey, a bee colony must visit around 4 million blossoms and fly a distance equivalent to several trips around the Earth.
During the educational session, participants made honey-apple energy balls from dried apples, honey, and nuts, coating them in powdered freeze-dried raspberries, blackcurrants, and cocoa. They also tasted spring apple blossom honey and enjoyed a cocktail made from apple juice and caraway tea.
The activity is organized within the framework of the 2021–2027 Interreg VI-A Latvia–Lithuania Cross-Border Cooperation Programme, Priority 4, “Economic Potential of Tourism and Heritage”, through the project “Enhancing Tourism Through the Development of the Bee Route from Kuršėnai to Ventspils” (Project Code: LL-00198, Acronym: Busy Bee).
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