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Small Bee, Big Buzz
My name is Matthew Willey. I am an artist and the founder of The Good Of The Hive. I’ve personally committed to hand-painting 50,000 individual honeybees in murals around the world to…
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Be a David in a world of Goliaths
Last week we received over 20 letters from a 4th grade class in Durham, NC that we visited this past fall to teach about honey bees and sustainability. Ms. Fussell,…
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A School Buzzing with Excitement
Trinity Yard School Bee Day We just finished our big bee day at Trinity Yard School in Cape Three Points, Ghana. We started working with the students at 8:30am and…
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Doing our homework
Our first “bee” agenda item was to stop on the way to Cape Three Points in a village called Salt Pond. We coordinated with the owner of a local honey…
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Why Ghana?….. and what next?
A bit of background on this trip to Ghana…the Bee Downtown Foundation has always done work in local school systems, but about 7 months ago I was introduced to a…
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Bee Downtown Goes to Ghana!
I have always loved the famous quote from Gandhi, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” From childhood, these words have spoken to me and have made…
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Give the Gift of Education
After two and a half wonderful years of our nonprofit leg being in a fiscal sponsorship with Abundance, NC, Bee Downtown Foundation has taken the leap to become its own…
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4 Ways To Be A Better Beekeeper
I can say without a doubt in my mind that this is one of the most magical times of the year. Sometimes I find it hard to describe, but there…
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Late Summer: Bees Search for Food
American Tobacco Apiary Goes on a Summer Vacation For honey bees, peak summer– July and early August– is termed “The Dearth”. The ominus name is used to describe when nectar…
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On the Verge
On the VERGE of Something Great! In just two weeks, Bee Downtown is jetsetting to Santa Clara, California to the 2016 GreenBiz Verge Conference to pitch our business concept to…
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