Bee-In at the Flea
May 21, 2009 | Filed In: Blog
Buzz Alert: Old pal Melissa Lohman Wild will be showing (and selling) her new documentary about NYC's rooftop beekeeping community at the Flea on Saturday from noon to 3pm in the Groundworks booth (W30).
It'll be looping on a laptop, and you can check out the short film (logically titled "Rooftop Bees"), chat with Melissa about John Howe, the Fort Greene beekeeper in the film, and chat with Alice and Carmen from Groundworks about the bee-friendly plants and flowers they'll have for sale this week (lavender, bee balm, tomatoes).
Urban beekeeping is all the rage these days, so come see what all the buzz is about.
cool! this guy wants to do it on the roof of my shop. The bees will get nectar from the cemetery across the street. "Dead guy honey"- sweet!
Very cool! John Howe will have an exhibit on the Fort Greene Garden Walk and fellow beekeepers, at GreenSpaces (33 Flatbush Ave.), have a hive as part of their rooftop farm which is also on the Garden Walk. Word has it that chickens will soon share the GreenSpaces roof.