In urban areas, the importance of honey bees to a city’s neighborhoods and communities often gets overlooked. But in Detroit, honey bees are crucial to the city’s rebirth, says Joan Mandell. Mandell operates Green Toe Gardens, which has more than 100 beehives in community gardens, schools and yards all across the Detroit metropolitan area. Not only do bees help pollinate many plant species in Detroit, says Mandell, but their collective behavior could also serve as an example of how to work together for a common good. Current State’s Hannah Meiklejohn reports.
Detroit's honey bees offer lesson in working together
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Honey bees in Detroit help fuel the growth in urban agriculture.
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Honey bees help pollinate plants in his garden in Detroit's North End neighborhood.
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