We use natural resources for production and transport. That's why it's important to us to give something back: since 2020, one square metre of flowering meadow has been planted for every product sold. In this way, we are creating a space that endangered insect species, birds and hares need to survive. The realisation is carried out by the ‘Blütenfreunde’ at Lake Schaalsee.

You can find regular updates on our cicé flowering meadow here.

June 2025

There is a good mood in the cicé office because it has finally rained a lot. This was so important for our forests, gardens and fields - and also for the cicé flowering meadow at Lake Schaalsee.

For every product sold, we still plant one square metre of flowering meadow there. Many wild bees have overwintered on the area from previous years; birds, hares and deer can also be found there.

The new area from this year had a hard time due to the drought. Now we are looking forward to everything blooming there soon.

September 2022

22,000 square metres - or figuratively speaking: just over three football fields. That's how much flowering meadow cicé has financed since 2020. One square metre per cicé product sold.

Around Heike Schmedes' farm at Lake Schaalsee, it bloomed and hummed beautifully again in the summer of 2022. And with even more diversity, which is so important for the endangered bees: thanks to a deliberately thinner layer of seed, small plants that grow closer to the ground also had a chance to establish themselves. In recent years, the flowering meadows have often been dominated by naturally larger plants.

Sunflowers were planted on some of the flowering meadows this year. The government had asked farmers to grow food crops due to the coronavirus crisis. As sunflowers are very bee-friendly, they were a wonderful alternative.

And more sweet news: the ‘Blütenfreunde’ bottled their own honey for the first time in 2022. We have a jar in our office - it tastes like summer, flowers and a bee-friendly future!

January 2020

Starting signal for the cooperation with ‘Blütenfreunde’: From 1st January 2020, one square metre of flowering meadow will be planted for every cicé product sold. We decided in favor of the ‘Blütenfreunde’ at Lake Schaalsee because the cicé flowering meadow should be close to Hamburg, so that we can travel there any time and follow the development.

You can find all the information about the ‘Blütenfreunde’ here: www.bluetenfreun.de