New York City honey

A weeklong, citywide festival celebrating the honeybee. Honey Week 2016 merges the educational, the entertaining, additionally the downright delicious. From beekeeping classes to honey-themed dinners, apiary trips to honey tastings, cooking courses to children's workshops, the event flits from community to area, attracting deep from apicultural practices and nyc's cultural traditions alike. The week culminates inside sixth annual daylong Honey Fest at Rockaway Boardwalk for a free of charge, family-friendly extravaganza featuring art, meals, songs, kids’ crafts and arts, the Bee Marketplace, and, needless to say, honey galore!

As honeybee communities decrease global, ab muscles success of your food production system is threatened. The canaries within our agricultural coal mine, Apis mellifera have plenty to show us about ecosystem survival and resilience. Their incredible hierarchy, astounding industriousness, and the exquisite crops they produce happen revered by humans since ancient times. We must work today to teach ourselves about any of it crucial species and honor the inspiring contributions they make on wellness of your struggling planet.