Urban apiary:
Bees from urban apiaries are often reported to be healthier than their rural counterparts, a pattern that is often attributed to cities’ having higher floral diversity and lower pesticide prevalence than rural-agricultural landscapes. This pattern remains anecdotal, though, and a recent empirical study of honey bee success patterns in Ohio, USA, found a weakly negative relationship between urban land cover and colony success among apiaries characterized by by some combination of urban and agricultural land use. While cities may support higher floral diversity than agricultural lands, they typically lack the large tracts of flowering weeds (e.g. dandelion, clovers, goldenrods) that can occur abundantly in rural roadsides and fallow fields.
Benefits: Honey bees pollinate a wide variety of plants, and the honey they produce is often sold to local restaurants and in local shops. A thriving bee population strengthens local ecosystems.
Link to the study is here:
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Local Farming/Know Your Farmer
Benefits: Farming Transparency, $6.1 Billion generated through the sale of local foods (according to USDA marketing research), reduced “carbon footprint” due to reduced pesticides & transport required, more nutritious food due to better fertilization and land curating processes, thriving local food culture/communities.