2024-09-14 05:15:09
FIGARO TOMORROW – Putting hives in the city is a good way to raise awareness among the public about the life of bees. But the practice has its limits.
He was among the pioneers. In the early 2000s, the beekeeper Audric de Campeau put his first hives in Paris, and, contrary to popular belief, made the city look like a good place for bees to live. Even the beekeeper has found the right strategy: having his little workers nest on high hills, like that of a French Academy or a Military Academy. Since then he has built a reputation for himself, and his “Paris Honey”, as he calls it, is sold at the Musée d’Orsay, at the Bon Marché, at Printemps… “Producing honey in the city is not a new thinghe recalled, referring to the apiary school in the Luxembourg Gardens, created in 1856, but, in Paris, the plan was a victim of its success.»
Indeed. For nearly twenty years, beekeeping groups have extolled the merits of cities where bees escape field pesticides. A way for them to communicate to the public about the need to protect these fragile dusts…
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