Urban Beehive Gives You Some Honey, Right on the Money
November 29th, 2011
I use honey with a lot of stuff. Honey on bread, honey in coffee, honey in oatmeal, honey in tea, honey in milk – I think a whole lot of things just taste better with honey in it or on it.
I even tried honey that was still pretty fresh from the hive when I visited a bee farm a couple of years ago. But imagine being able to get the freshest honey ever with your very own beehive that you can mount, right in your very own kitchen.
The Urban Beehive is a design by Clive van Heerden and Jack Mama. It’s part of a new project by Philips called the “Microbial Home.” Through the project, Philips envisions a future where the waste from one household might become fuel for another.
Philips also says that there are more benefits to the Urban Beehive than meets the eye. Aside from providing people with fresh honey, the Urban Beehive can also boost pollination and provide some sort of therapeutic value to the owners by just watching the bees hard at work.
But my only question now is: what’s in it for the bees?
[via Daily Mail]
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this would be illegal to own in new york city and allot of other major cites. great idea/design. but yeah i dont want to keep my windows closed 24/7.
Interesting, though I live in the country, I would love to have that on one of my kitchen windows – fresh honey, entertainment watching them. I just wonder what the little pull chain thingy is for? And how you get the honey out, normally you have to take out the frames the honey comb is on. I see no practical way to open this unit up to access the honey.