3:16 am in artists, arts, bees, birds, Cattle, crafts, Culture & Celebrity, Design & Architecture, designers, exhibits, materials, rivers, science, Science & Technology, spain by TreeHugger
Photo Credit: Gerard Moliné
When I entered the
Gallery Art & Design in Poblenou, Barcelona, it was the odd smell I noticed first. Very faint, but it reminded me of something far away. Large pieces of art are scattered around the big white gallery space, made up of thick earthy colours and rough textures. I wasn't sure what exactly I was looking at until
Gerard Moliné himself told me the story of how, when he was 7 years old in his village in the Catalan country side, he placed
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9:36 am in bees, Food & Health, honey, pesticides, Travel & Nature, turkey by TreeHugger
Honey for sale in Polonezköy, an Istanbul village. Photo: ccarlstead / Creative Commons
If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick
kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (
bal). But though Turkey is one of the world's top
honey producers, ...
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12:43 pm in bees, Food & Health, movies, new york city by TreeHugger
Image via screengrab.
Since New York
legalized beekeeping within city limits last year, the practice has become more and more popular. On a quest to explore the growing beekeeping movement in New York, filmmakers Adrian Bautista, Martha Glenn and Brooke Tascona made a documentary, simply titled "Urban Beekeeping: NYC." It's a short, simple film that perfectly captures what makes beekeeping so fascinating and satisfying.
Watch the video after the jump:
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7:46 am in bees, colony collapse disorder, Food & Health, science, Science & Technology, united kingdom by TreeHugger
Image credit: Siona Watson, used under Creative Commons license
Sara Snow has talked before about
using bee pollen to help fight allergies, and honey also features strongly in folk medicine around the Globe. (The antimicrobial properties of honey are part of the reason we can
still find 3000-year-old honeycomb.) Now researchers are hoping to use honey ...
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10:34 am in bees, botanical, Cars & Transportation, colony collapse disorder, food, idaho, insects, united states by TreeHugger
In the search for solutions to the
ongoing plight of honeybees, both
mainstream bee experts and advocates of
alternative approaches to beekeeping have suggested that the practice of trucking honeybees thousands of miles across country for pollination may be causing undue stress and contributing to colony losses. Whether or not this is the cas...
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5:10 am in bats, bees, gardens, insects, sustainable, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.
Several gardens at this year's
Chelsea Flower Show were featuring them. The most stylish, attached to the wall of a recycled shipping container, were at the Royal Bank of Canada's
New Wild Garden. ...
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Image credit: British Forces News
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone wear a flack jacket into a bee yard before.
We've already heard about how Beekeeping Without Borders has taken honey bee education to Iraq and beyond. Afghanistan is also benefiting from a concerted effort to promote beekeeping. In fact, if this video is to be believed, beekeeping may be a key tool in eradicating opium poppy farming. With Afghan officials reporting a 15% drop in opium farming this year, some ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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