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Food Bank abuzz about partnership with Gees Bees Honey

June 9, 2016 Stittsville Central Staff Leave a comment

(ABOVE: Matthew Gee, Co-Founder of Gees Bees Honey Company, holding up part of a bee hive. Photo by Barry Gray.)

The Ottawa Food Bank unveiled a new beehive on Wednesday at their Community Harvest farming project on Mansfield Road near Stittsville.

Thanks to a grant from JustChange Ottawa, the Gees Bees Honey Company has teamed up with the food bank to install the beehive. The honeybees who call this new hive their home will help pollinate the crops and will also produce honey that Gees Bees will sell to benefit the food bank. Continue reading →

Bee hives go missing from Arcadia neighbourhood

December 28, 2015 Stittsville Central Staff Leave a comment

A pair of bee hives — each one containing up to 15,000 bees – were taken from a field near the Arcadia subdivision in Kanata before Christmas, and their owner is asking the public for help find them.

Here’s part of an email interview with Marianne Gee, one of the owners of Dunrobin-based Gees Bees Honey Company. Continue reading →

Munster beekeeper wins Awesome Ottawa grant

April 21, 2015 Stittsville Central Staff Leave a comment

(A version of this article originally appeared on the Awesome Ottawa web site.)

April’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Graeme Peterson, to support community beekeeping, as well as demonstration and education, by the Ottawa Community Beekeepers. Continue reading →