Corporate beehive installation in Paris
Apiterra installs and looks after beehives on the roofs, terraces and green spaces of companies in Paris and throughout Île-de-France. A turnkey, zero-risk service run by professional beekeepers since 2010.
Request a quoteWhy install a beehive at your Paris site?
Since 2010, Apiterra has partnered with Parisian businesses and organisations to install and manage professional corporate beehives on their premises. Across the capital and the Île-de-France region, this turnkey initiative provides a tangible way to advance CSR goals while supporting urban biodiversity.
As a leading European economic hub, Paris hosts an extraordinary concentration of enterprises, from the historic Central Business District to the corporate towers of La Défense and major tertiary hubs along the Seine. For these organisations, hosting beehives serves as a visible, meaningful sustainability initiative. In a dense metropolitan environment, introducing honeybees offers Parisian workplaces an engaging, hands-on opportunity to reconnect employees with nature, foster internal pride, and tangibly demonstrate their environmental commitment to clients and partners.
Paris offers a remarkably supportive habitat for bees, sustained by famous green spaces such as the Jardin du Luxembourg, Parc Monceau, and the expansive woodlands of Boulogne and Vincennes. The city's iconic avenues, lined with chestnut, linden, and pagoda trees, provide abundant nectar flows from spring through late summer. In addition, the urban microclimate buffers colonies against extreme winter cold, allowing honeybees to thrive alongside the Seine and throughout the capital's network of landscaped corridors.
In Paris, accessible flat rooftops, private courtyards, and landscaped campus grounds offer prime settings for corporate apiaries. Apiterra oversees every aspect of technical operation, hive health, and safety management, enabling facility and sustainability teams to launch the project effortlessly. This initiative enlivens corporate premises, engages employees through seasonal milestones, and anchors corporate social responsibility within the heart of the city.
Above all, it brings people together: hive visits, harvest days, the Apiterra mobile app and the Apinews keep every employee involved throughout the year.
How a project works in Paris
1. On-site feasibility study
An Apiterra beekeeper visits your Paris site with you to check location, access, exposure and safety.
2. Installation
Hives, colonies and signage are installed by our team. Personalisation is available (roof stickers, apiary sign, roll-up banners, totem).
3. Year-round care
Regular beekeeper visits, health monitoring with our expert veterinarian, and reports in the app.
4. Harvest & honey
Your honey is extracted and put in personalised jars with your company logo.
Zero risk, all legal obligations handled
- Hives placed away from passage areas, following regulatory distances
- Insurance, health register, DDPP declaration and apiary signage handled by Apiterra
- Partnership with INRAE and an expert veterinarian in bee pathology
- A real person reachable by phone, with a quick call-back
Discover our corporate beehive service ·Read our complete installation guide
Questions about beehives in Paris
Are Parisian office rooftops suitable for hosting corporate beehives?
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Yes, flat rooftops across Paris provide quiet, sunny, and secure environments well separated from pedestrian traffic. Apiterra conducts an on-site technical inspection to verify safe access, wind conditions, and structural suitability before any hives are installed.
Do you really work in Paris?
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Yes. Apiterra installs and maintains corporate beehives in Paris and across Île-de-France, as in the rest of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Is there any risk for employees?
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Hives are installed in places away from passage areas after an on-site study. Bees fly up and out of the apiary and are not interested in people. Apiterra takes care of insurance and all legal obligations.
How much does it cost?
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Each project is different (number of hives, site, options). Request a quote and we will send you a personalised proposal.
What if we have no rooftop or garden?
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You can sponsor hives hosted in our Apiterra apiaries and still receive honey and news from your colonies.