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 […]
Urban beekeeping
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 […]
Hives for wild bees in the park Tête d’Or in Lyon
A botanical garden, a lake, a rose garden, a zoo, an apiary or facility for wild bees, all this and more in one of the largest parks in France, the Tête d’Or park, next to Rhone river in Lyon. Meadows, woods, filled areas of all kinds of flowers to be enjoyed by an enthusiastic audience […]