[VIDEO] Fortitude Valley | This Business is the Bees Knees!

By Shannon Edwards // Place New Farm

Did you know, one third of our global food supply is pollinated by the honey bee. This means that essentially, without bees, there would be no food!

Who would’ve thought a creature so small could have such a large impact on our daily life?

Founded by Jack Stone and Kat Skull, Bee One Third educates Brisbane’s inner city on the importance of bees in the food system and encourages pollination back into suburbia.

With 150 across Brisbane, Bee One Third do everything from hive checks, disease control and prevention and of course… honey extraction!

Jack took us up to one of their hives on a rooftop in Fortitude Valley. Peering across to the city skyline, Jack took us through a day in the life of a bee keeper.

Check it out!

How did Bee One Third begin?

Bee One Third started in August 2012 when a friend and I were thinking of how we could make a positive contribution back to the local food environment.

Outside of growing fruit and veggies and educating people on how they can grow their own produce, we thought bees connected the dots to the whole process of food production.

Bee One Third was founded on the premise of educational benefit.

Five years down the track we now have 150 bee hives.

Tell us a bit more about these hives?

When we started in 2012 we only had one hive. As the years went by, our number of hives grew.

Within three years we were managing 65 beehives on rooftops in Brisbane City.

We currently we manage 150 hives spread through Brisbane’s inner city, Brisbane suburbs, right down to the New South Wales coast.