{"id":5756,"date":"2011-11-17T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2011-11-17T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:39:40","slug":"not-your-mothers-beehive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/not-your-mothers-beehive\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Mother’s Beehive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The urban beekeeping trend has been steadily rising<\/a> \u2013 at least among those with backyards or rooftop access (and accommodating landlords). The decrease in bee numbers<\/a> has presumably contributed to this, as well as the growing popularity of organic foods. Beekeeping, although clearly not without its hazards, involves less work than vegetable gardens, and less noisy mess than chickens<\/a>. The perks include having ready access to your own tasty raw honey, and fresh beeswax and propolis<\/a>.\u00a0And your honey might taste like candy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, if your only reservation about taking up beekeeping in your home was the way that hulking ugly wooden box would clash with your modern d\u00e9cor, Phillips has now solved your problem. Or will, at some point.\u00a0 As part of its Microbial Home Probe<\/a>, Phillips has unveiled its new urban be<\/a>ehive concept<\/a>.\u00a0 Consisting of two sleekly contoured pieces, the beehive can be mounted onto a window, with the white scoop outside holding a flowerpot, and the glass ovoid with the frames for the honeycombs inside, for your viewing pleasure.\u00a0 There is also a smoke activator which is designed so that you can release the bees outside, without having to come into contact with any actual bees.<\/p>\n

Phillips has created a pretty sweet design for those urbanites looking to add honey to their rooftop or balcony gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The urban beekeeping trend has been steadily rising \u2013 at least among those with backyards or rooftop access (and accommodating landlords). The decrease in bee numbers has presumably contributed to this, as well as the growing popularity of organic foods. Beekeeping, although clearly not without its hazards, involves less work than vegetable gardens, and less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,907,908,906],"tags":[1647,1650,1648,1649,1651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}