Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Multimedia Assignment
Multimedia Assignment

This video by Noah Wilson-Rich describes why cities need honeybees.  He discusses urban beekeeping in relation to pollination.  Also discussed is how urban bees tend to have a higher survival rates than those kept in rural areas and have higher production of honey than rural bees.

This video can serve as an education resource when making a case for allowing honeybees as a necessary part of urban agriculture.

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