Sustainability

High-quality raw ingredients and water of the finest quality are the most important elements in every bottle of BIONADE. Naturally, we endeavour to ensure that we act responsibly when it comes to nature and its resources. We therefore work exclusively with organic partners and promote organic farming in the region. You can find out more about this in our sustainability reports.

Wow, that was a serious section.

>> Sustainability report 2016-2017 (German)
>> Sustainability report 2014-2015 (German)
>> Sustainability report 2011-2013 (German)

There wouldn’t be any BIONADE if it wasn’t for the bees. It is thanks to them that we have the recipe for the alcohol-free fermentation of sugar. But, more importantly: our entire ecosystem would collapse without bees. That’s why we started beekeeping ourselves in the spring of 2014. Since then, our two beehives have become an important part of the family and live right by our quince and meadow orchard in the BIONADE experimental garden.

In 1991, the Rhön area was named a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Because it’s beautiful and we want to protect it. It’s just a great area. And UNESCO and BIONADE have been working together closely since 2005 in order to ensure it stays that way. We collaborate to support projects that protect plants and animals and do everything we can to bring the economy, ecology and society into harmony. That’s why all our ingredients come from organic farms and the majority are sourced from the local area too.

It’s also why we work particularly hard to protect part of the Streu, a tributary of the Franconian Saale river. We work together with the Rhön-Grabfeld Association for Protection of the Landscape (LPV) and the Regional Society for Protection of Birds (LBV) to protect endangered indigenous species, for example.