Urban Beekeeping, Bee Resources, and Bee Issues
- Honey Bees – Simple name and a big mission – the proliferation of bees in Canada. A great clearing house of info for Canadian Beekeepers. They’re also on Facebook!
- Backyard Hive – a truly wonderful resource website, in support of backyard beekeepers. Check out their beautiful designs for top bar beehives, which are designed to support a more natural life style for the bees.
- Bee Guardian – the sister site to Backyard Hive, this site details their projects dedicated to the renewal of bee populations. Pretty exciting stuff!
- FoodShare’s Urban Bees Project – this is an amazing project, happening in the heart of Toronto. Click here to read a great story about this project.
- Fairmont Royal York – High atop this hotel is the Royal York’s very own three hive apiary! It produces award winning honey, and they also make the occasional podcast. Click here for the podcasts.
- Jardin du Luxembourg – located in Paris, this garden features a beekeeping school that has been operating since 1856.
- New York City Beekeepers Association – an amazing project. They are also offering classes. Truly an inspiration for the Halifax Honeybee Society! And they just got legalized! Click here to read more info on NYC Beekeeper’s successful campaign. Click here and here to see two great videos about urban beekeepers, made last year while beekeeping in NYC was still illegal.
- Here’s a nice article in Canadian Gardening, promoting urban beekeeping.
- The chef at Ryan Duffy’s, on top of the Radisson Hotel here in Halifax, is keeping bees in his rooftop herb garden. Check out his blog for more info!
- Bees and Beekeeping – a great clearing house of info for organic and other beekeepers.
- Here’s a very interesting article on the connection between honey bees and architecture.
Bee Art and Other Charming Finds
- This interesting article features a slide show about how Hilary Berseth coaxes his bees into making beautiful wax scultures.
