Charlottetown architects get busy educating public on bees

A group of Charlottetown architects is hoping to attract schools and the general public to a new project about honey bees and food security.

BGHJ Architects won a $2,500 micro-grant from the City of Charlottetown last week to design several structures to house beehives at the Farm Centre Legacy Garden.

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The public will be able to enter the structures and see how honey gets made.

"We're replacing two sides of the hives with Plexiglass," said BGHJ architect Shallyn Murray.

"We really want there to be a large educational component to this. We're hoping that schools can actually come to more of an organized thing where there's someone there who can teach them about bee keeping."

The building design is inspired by honey comb. The brightly-coloured structures will go up at the Legacy Garden, behind the Farm Centre on University Avenue, next month.

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