Bronx hospital has 250K bees on its roof — and will soon be selling honey
The center will include a teaching kitchen, a community fitness center, and a “farmacy” that will sell the honey and the vegetables — which include radishes, turnips, tomatoes and onions.
By Jason Beeferman and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York Post
July 7, 2020
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St. Barnabas Hospital has built a hive for hundreds of thousands of bees on its roof — but the Bronx infirmary says the insects are nothing to bee afraid of, and could actually provide some sweet relief for the local community.
The Belmont hospital unveiled the bee colony Tuesday as part of a new rooftop garden and soon-to-open wellness center, and collected its first honey harvest in the process — as much as 150 pounds of the sweet stuff.
“The honey actually is particular to this location, to where the bees are,” said Mark Rosing, head of OBGYN at St. Barnabas. “So, it might actually have an immune benefit for our community because we live here. So, it’s Bronx special select honey.”
“We all know that honey helps immune response and it even helps expose you to different antigens that bees pick up from the pollen,” he said. “Who knows, maybe bees are part of the cure to COVID.”
