National Geographic: Detroit’s urban beekeepers are transforming the city’s vacant lots
“Detroit Hives,” a film by Palmer Morse and Rachel Weinberg.
By Jaenique Hurlock
National Geographic
June 4, 2019
Excerpt:
Detroit Natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey witnessed first-hand the negative effects the housing crisis had on their city. With roughly 90,000 vacant lots, neighborhoods have been destabilized and communities abandoned with little action being taken, in their view, to fix the root of the problem.
When Paule became sick one recent winter and developed a really bad cough that neither medicine, home remedies or a trip to the doctor could cure, he visited a local store where the owner introduced him to the benefits of raw honey. He explained to Paule that his supply came from a beekeeper. That led to an aha moment for Nicole Lindsey. “When that worked, it clicked, like, okay let’s study more about this honey and its medicinal properties,” she says. The couple developed an idea to transform some of Detroit’s vacant lots into urban bee farms. (Follow the hunt for psychotropic honey.)
Paule and Lindsey started Detroit Hives, a non-profit organization, in 2017 as a way to rebuild some of Detroit’s inner-city communities and spread bee awareness. They have successfully converted seven vacant lots into apiaries and currently maintain 34 beehives with plans to add ten more this year. And since most of the produce found in supermarkets—such as fruits, nuts and vegetables—are pollinated by bees, Tim and Nicole are also growing vast amounts of vegetables on their urban farms for their bees to cross pollinate—providing a solution to the food deserts that exist some cities.
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Source: http://cityfarmer.info/national-geographic-detroits-urban-beekeepers-are-transforming-the-citys-vacant-lots/
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