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Gotham beekeepers no longer have to keep their hives hidden. The New York City Department of Health lifted the ban on beekeeping yesterday, to the glee of an increasing number of urban bee farmers who want to produce their own honey.
鈥淟ately, bees have picked up political cache among a growing number of green-minded folk interested in seeing organic agriculture return to big American cities,鈥 the Associated Press. 鈥淭he movement to end the ban picked up after Michelle Obama had a hive installed on the South Lawn of the White House.鈥
New York is not the only metropolitan area where beekeepers are tending to urban hives. Paris, Toronto, San Francisco, and Chicago are also home to city bees.
鈥淟ike the honeybee itself, urban beekeepers are a 鈥榮mall but mighty鈥 group, says fourth-generation beekeeper Andrew Cot