Discover how easy it is to raise bees in the city! Urban beekeeping is an increasingly popular activity, as well as being useful for the environment. We understand how it works and what advantages it has for us and for the urban environment.
The extinction of bees due to climate change, but it is possible to do something in our little one, perhaps we have not yet said it.
Perhaps not everyone knows that one can easily become a beekeeper while living in the city and living in an apartment.
Here are some projects, abroad, that also allow beginners to raise bees in the city. A sustainable practice is also possible in an urban environment, which is also less difficult than one might think.
Projects to raise bees in the city.
In France
In France, since 2008, urban hives have spread. Olivier Darné, for example, has become famous for installing the Banque du Miel: with at least 10 euros, he can receive part of the harvested honey, a hive of condominiums and participation in educational workshops on urban bees.
Also in Paris was born Honey Béton; produced in the district of Saint Denis, it is now for sale at Galeries Lafayette. There are around 300 urban beehives in Paris for a total of 50 kilos of honey produced in the city!
In England
Even in England urban beekeping is fashionable, from the roofs of economic institutions such as the London Stock Exchange, the Tate Modern or the Waldorf-Astoria: in London, in fact, there are 2,000 hives, and associations were also born to support beekeeping. in the city
Bee Collective at the Victoria railway station has created a true "honey house" to help new beekeepers.
In the U.S
In New York, urban beekeeping began only in 2010, with Bees Without Borders, the Andrew Coté association whose honey, produced by the 250 hives of the East Village, is sold for charity.
In Italy
Antonio Barletta's project urbees was the first to make urban bees a reality. And always in Turin, there are also propolis, 1di2, Aspromiele, ApiinCittà; But also Naples, Bologna, Rome and Palermo are carrying out beekeeping projects.
In Milan, a study is being considered that also involves the Councilor for Quality of Life, Chiara Bisconti.
Bees are not only our future, since they are capable of acting as an antenna for environmental pollution, but urban beekeeping is also an excellent way to make communities remind us of a socio-environmental lesson.
Urban honey seems to be even better than the one produced in the country: "thanks to the biodiversity represented by the flowers that are chosen for the production of honey.".
And for those who wonder if it is not contaminated, the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna declares that the quantities of contaminants present in urban honey do not represent a threat to health.