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The Chicago
Honey Co-Op is a fine example of how "hibernating" urban
space can be put to productive
use which actually improves the environment and builds community. For 8
and a half years this apiary
has inhabited a vacant lot on loan from a development company. The
green you see among the hives
and towards
the back grew spontaneously up through and on top of an
expanse of seemingly
impermeable concrete. In addition to the bees, there's a shared garden
space where Sarah and
I helped by picking garlic
which had to come out quick after Saturday's
drenching 7-inch rain.
A wheelbarrow
on
site went from empty to overflowing overnight, an
ersatz pluviometer
registering more than eight inches. In another section, trees
seemed to punch holes
thru asphalt from below, putting me in mind of The World
Without Us.
What
a planet!
So glorious, resilient. Makes me wonder why the many seem intent on
killing it.
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