The duo bought their first vacant space on Detroit’s East Side for $340 with the help of the Detroit Land Bank Authority, an agency that works to redevelop abandoned properties. To become certified beekeepers, Paule and Lindsey took two courses at Green Toe Gardens and Keep Growing Detroit. They put producing local honey and erasing urban blight together, and Detroit Hives was born. “He said you consume local honey because it has medicinal properties.”Īfter he started to feel better, the couple also began to think about how urban blight contributed to allergies through overgrown ragweeds in abandoned areas. “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. Paule, a photographer, and Lindsey, a staff member for the health care provider Henry Ford OptimEyes, had been dating for some time before launching the nonprofit. Paule attributes their inspiration to a cold that he just couldn’t get rid of. “The area can be a breeding ground for environmental hazards, which creates a stigma around the city.” “These properties are left abandoned and serve as a dumping ground in most cases,” Paule told HuffPost. “Work hard, stay bumble” is their nonprofit motto.Ī 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.ĭetroit Hives, a nonprofit organization founded by Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey in 2017, purchases vacant properties and remodels them into fully functioning bee farms. Huffington Post By Philip Lewis January 10, 2018
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