Berlín, Frankfurt o Munich ya cuentan con miles de abejas en sus zonas urbanas. Estas ciudades tienen en común tener una legislación adecuada y contar con la abeja Apis mellifica carnica, cuyo carácter manso, facilita la apicultura urbana en Alemania. Esta abeja tan amigable minimiza los riesgos de picaduras a la población. «Tendrías que aplastarla…
Urban beekeeping
Airport´s honey
First we discover concrete or béton honey and now airport honey. We review the reasons from different airports in the world to include hives in «its workforce». What the responsibles in Munich airport (Germany) wanted to know is the influence of its activity on the quality of the food produced in airport´s environment, one of the main issues discussed among the…
Bees behind bars
We knew the existence of programs of therapy and animal-assisted education in prisons of Spain and the United States, countries where governements have worked for years in rehabilitation programs to integrate prison population in sociaty, teaching inmates to train service dogs, a way to facilitate people their social integration. Using dogs as therapy for problems of other inmates…
Urban Beekeeping in cemeteries
Yes, as it sounds. Locate hives in the greenery of cemeteries, in those areas dedicated to bury our loved ones, which in many countries are equipped with spacious and maintained green areas. If urban beekeeping love urban gardens, why not include bees in a well-kept cemetery with sufficient resources of honey and nectar? We start with the cemetery of…
Concrete honey in Saint Denis
The French artist Olivier Darné , tired of the conventional forms of attracting attention, decides one day to examine the common lines between the pairs hive – honey bee and city – person . This reflection takes him to place an experimental hive in the roof of his building in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis…
De Bijenkorf, una gran colmena
Los grandes almacenes «la colmena», o de Bijenkorf en neerlandés, es una cadena de grandes centros comerciales de los Países Bajos, donde uno, con algo de dinero, puede encontrar lo más elegante y exclusivo, desde lo último de la moda o cosmética hasta la delicatessen de mayor calidad. En definitiva, tienen casi de todo y están presentes en las mejores…