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Underground Rooftop Honey

by · March 12th, 2009
Film, Honey, New York

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I just wrote a new post on beekeeping in New York and local honeys for The Vine. While it’s illegal to keep bees in New York, beekeeping persists and there’s plenty of delicious local honey to prove it.  At a local honey tasting in SOHO some of the local honeys stole the show, and reflected the tastes and intricacies of New York itself.

And for a great video on the topic, Wendy Cohen and the Meerkat Media Arts Collective made a wonderful film on Colony Collapse Disorder and rooftop beekeeping on the East Coast, including in New York City.

Also, Just Food has an online petition to legalize beekeeping in New York and I strongly encourage all to sign.
*photo credit: Sabrina Malach
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3 Responses to “Underground Rooftop Honey”

  1. Avigail Says:
    March 13th, 2009 at 9:38 am

    Thanks, Jeff, for sharing this important information. I’ve gotta sign that petition!

  2. Adam Jackson Says:
    March 13th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    I love the idea and strongly support legalising local honey production in NYC. My high-school Latin teacher used to keep bees behind the school swimming pool and brought in jars of his honey to school to sell every autumn. (London honey is mainly from Plane trees: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Plane). Usefully, this coincided with Rosh haShanah!

    I must confess, though, that my favourite kind of honey is white Hawai’ian honey (http://www.volcanoislandhoney.com/) – I’m not such a big fan of the classic “honey” taste, and this is a particularly light, not very honey-like honey. WholeFoods seem to have stopped carrying it, though, and I can’t find it anywhere in NYC any more. Shipping costs are prohibitive direct from Hawai’i, too. Anyone have any recommendations on where to find it in NYC?

  3. Judith Says:
    March 28th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    For those thinking about becoming beekeepers, please consider keeping bees in top-bar hives, which are considered by many to be more sustainable and better for the bees than the Langstroth hives. It’s easy to build a top-bar hive if you’re a woodworker but since I’m not I bought one from backyardhive.com.

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