BravApe
Agroecosistema Euganeo
PERFUMES,
COLOURS AND FLAVOURS OF EUGANEAN HILLS
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THE LAND OF WINE AND HONEY Bravape Agroecosistema Euganeo was born more than ten years ago, in Galzignano Terme, a small town near Padua (Italy) in the Euganean Hills Regional Park, a land rich of history, traditions, fertile with a mild climate, wich offers to every season enchanting landscapes and precious fruits. |
OUR COMPANY Bravape is a commercial enterprise. Operations headquarter and honey processing plants are located in Galzignano Terme. Next aim is to consolidate and modernize its plants and to improve the commercial and distribution network. |
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 THE LABORATORIES The firm’s honey processing plants are located in the laboratories in the Euganean Hills Park in Galzignano Terme. In addiction to honey processing and packing “BRAVAPE” offers a theoretical and practical training and advice service for the local apiculturists of the Euganean Hills regarding bee rearing, production and handling of apiarian materials and sanitary treatments. |
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| OUR OBJECTIVES Stimulating production without altering environment is surely possible by promoting an agriculture which combines and improves the qualities of the ecosystem, in particular in the Euganean Hills area, where agriculture is the basis of the local economy. BRAVAPE main objectives are to exploit their different experiences and techniques and to optimize production skills. Obtaining a quality product is the essential basis to spread the idea of an agroecosystem, which, because of its peculiarity, is extremely suitable to the Euganean area. |
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 ORGANIC APICULTURE IN THE EUGANEAN HILLS First among the companies in the Euganean Hills, BRAVAPE obtains and markets high quality honey, like acacia, lime tree, chestnut, wildflowers honey and wood honeydew. and is accredited by ICEA ( Istituto per la Certificazione Etica ed Ambientale) as a certified organic producer. BRAVAPE aims to obtain within a few years the certification for all its products. |
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 MORE THAN HONEY In addiction to honey and basic apiarian products, “BRAVAPE” produces and markets a wide range of by-products ranging from local products to grappa and bitter herbal liqueurs, from dietary supplements to a complete line of body-care herbal cosmetics. |
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 MARKETING
“BRAVAPE” promotes and markets its own products taking part to important local and national fairs and by means of its points of sale. It is also possible to buy “BRAVAPE” products directly at the firm premises in Montegrotto Terme and Galzignano Terme.
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 BIOLOGICAL MONITORING Bravape is not only a honey producer: it uses bees like bioindicators to monitor the health of Euganean ecosystem and to determine its integrity, within the EMAS Certification context, an official eco-managment sistem including biological monitoring as an efficient instrument of self certification for producers. |
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 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS BRAVAPE
promote learning experience for students,
using bee-keeping lessons and guided farm visits as teaching
methods.
Bravape aims to involve local schools in a organic
agricolture and biological monitoring project: schools
become monitoring sites and students will be operators in lab
and groupwork, to incourage them to
improve their scientific knowledge and make more responsability for
their own learning. |
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 BOOKS BRAVAPE, according with local administrative entities, create and publish literary material concerning the Euganean ecosystem and its environmental, historical and economical aspects. |
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