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A new bee hive for Hastings Folk Garden in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

June 6, 2012 Leave a comment

The newest addition to Hastings Folk Garden is a brand new bee hive!

Downtown Eastside residents in the community garden program will have an exciting opportunity to learn about bee keeping.

Honey Bees bring so many benefits to our lives, flowers and vegetables including the sweet treat of delicious honey!

“Unique among all God’s creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species.” ~ Royden Brown

“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?” ~ Albert Einstein

 

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