A pair of Detroit natives have decided to combat neighborhood blight in a pretty sweet way — by transforming abandoned vacant lots in their city into honeybee farms. Detroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully functioning bee farms. “These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most cases,” Paule told HuffPost. “I went to the local market that I normally go to, and he suggested that I try some local honey for my cough,” Paule said. They put producing local honey and erasing urban blight together, and Detroit Hives was born.

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2018 21:56 UTC