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2011 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach

Shifting the Impact of Food Production through Urban Agriculture and Beekeeping

Student(s):

Katherine Game

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Corky Luster

Partner(s):

  • Ballard Bee Company

Faculty advisor(s):

John Edwards, Department of Biology, university of Washington

For my project, I worked with Ballard Bee Company (BBC), an urban beekeeping company based in Seattle, to develop educational materials on honeybees. The pamphlet I produced had several important facts about honeybees, beekeeping, and the benefits of keeping bees in urban areas. I also interviewed several of BBC’s current hosts as a way to document the hosting process and to get an idea about what it is like to keep bees in a residential neighborhood. I used this information to compile a FAQ page for the BBC website to help guide prospective customers in their decision-making process.