At the beginning of the semester, our class took a field trip to a local social enterprise, Bybi. We spent the afternoon touring the company in Amager, hearing the details of the business plan, seeing real-live beehives, and even got to taste fresh honey!
The best way to learn about Bybi is through their informational website. They describe their company as the following,
“Bybi consists of people with widely different social and professional backgrounds and living conditions. The different cultures and personalities meet in honey production, and in a desire to find a place in the community where they can contribute to a better and more spacious one of the kind.
And that’s fine. that honey production becomes binder and bridge builds between the Jensen family on Vesterbro and the freshly baked honeydew, and our beesworms, Aref, from Syria.
Our local production and the daily interplay of bees, people and flowers help create a greener city that is a living of life. And you can not help being hysterically proud of that.”
They have partnerships with notable companies such as Loreal. An interesting note the owner and founder, Oliver, mentioned is that he doesn’t consider himself as a social entrepreneur or Bybi as a social enterprise. He doesn’t aim to employee anybody in particular, he hopes people mock his business plan, etc.
I even got to bring some non-traditional, homemade Bybi products home with me. Honey beer! Yum!
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