The goal of the Ypsilanti Food Co-op’s Local Honey Project is to make more local honey available to customers and increase awareness of sustainable food production, as well as educate about the threats to honeybees and other insect pollinators.  Our Local Honey Project has established five hives near the Co-op (including two in Honeybee Alley, adjacent to the building) to inform customers and support volunteer beekeepers in learning about natural beekeeping.  Additional benefits include creating and expanding Michigan-adapted survivor honeybee colonies and encouraging more small urban holdings of honeybees in the local area. 

Spring in the Honeybee Alley at Ypsi Food Co-op.