Another project I’ve toyed with over the years, but only from a distance, has been bee-keeping. I have a great-aunt who is a seasoned practicioner of the craft. Yet life in the over-built ‘burbs (along with an instinctive fear of the sting, perhaps) has kept me from giving it a try. So I was happily surprised today to find an article on urban bee-keeping in today’s Washington Post. I never would have thought this a possibility, always assuming the hives had to be kept by folks living near country fields beyond the rapidly paved ex-burbs… But like the increasing amount of green space being reclaimed in the urban realm it seems there may also be room for beekeeping on the roofs of our city blocks and houses. Nice to see, especially amidst the growing concern over vanishing bees.
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