The city’s health board has proposed lifting the longtime ban as part of a movement to encourage urban agriculture.
A city councilman has also proposed a bill that would legalize beekeeping.
Prospective beekeepers won’t need to notify neighbors or apply for a license under new rules proposed by the city as it considers allowing residents to keep backyard hives.
Florida is the first state to regulate honey, prohibiting additives and chemicals as well as requiring specific sugar levels.
Beekeeping is now legal in Minneapolis, after being banned for more than three decades. The change has beekeepers rejoicing – cautiously.
A beekeeper has said he will sue the council if they make him remove his hives from an allotment. Jason Clegg has been ordered to remove his five hives of honey bees from the Willwood Avenue allotment in Oakes.
New York City always buzzes with activity. It appears urban beekeeping is contributing.
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to pass an ordinance that legalizes beekeeping in Minneapolis.
Beekeeping is officially illegal in New York – but that hasn’t stopped keepers around the city from practicing their hobby on the down-low.
The bees are no longer buzzing at Jaquie Bunse’s Edmonds condo.
The Iowa Secretary of Agriculture says worldwide reports of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), where whole hives of bees just disappear, is alarming for Iowa where bees are vital to the state’s agricultural productivity.
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