Honey harvested from rooftop beehives at Valley Hospital
By Myles Ma/NJ.com
The Valley Hospital’s first honey harvest — which yielded about 45 pounds of honey — is in the news!
PARAMUS — Valley Hospital has its own brand of honey.
It’s light, with an almost citrus aftertaste, and would go great with figs, John Graziano, executive chef at the hospital, said.
Graziano tasted the honey for the first time Tuesday after beekeepers Joseph G. Lelinho and Eric Hanan extracted it from the hives on the rooftop of the hospital’s Paramus campus. The hives are part of an initiative to use more locally sourced food.
Lelinho and Hanan, co-founders of Bee Bold Apiaries in Glen Ridge, installed the hives in May. To produce the honey, the bees used nectar from flowers within two miles of the hospital to produce the honey: dandelions, Japanese bamboo, goldenrod, clovers, skunk cabbage, crocuses and fruit trees.
Valley provides honey bees while its expansion will:
Double the size of the building (excluding the 5 level garage)
Increase taxes due to requirement for more village services including police, water, fire dept and building/planning
Bring thousands of trucks into local sides streets and past BF
Decrease property values for many hundreds of east side residents
Increase traffic with 1000+ additional parking spaces and a 5 level parking garage lining Linwood
Destroys quality of life for many village resident
etc etc
I can’t believe that the PB is still considering this request.
Although these are just a few of the bad points, please understand that the property values for the entire town will decrease, and the taxes will increase. This is a no win situation for Ridgewood in both the short and long term.
There are residents (and non-residents) all over the place trying to figure out why Ridgewood is revisiting this once again. Quite frankly, this whole thing has become an embarrassment. Let’s hope it does not become a bigger one. Tomorrow night is a step towards preventing that.
that’s cool
I Hate Death Valley!
I believe the Honey is being produced as a lubricant for the Council and Planning Board?
Stop Valley tomorrow night, at the BF School (next to the hospital) at 7:30 pm! One of the most important meetings to attend!
Build in Paramus you morons! Did you hear that Pascack Valley is now re-opened due to you ignorance. Build within your current structures. Holy S, I can’t believe this is still going on??????
What a waste of time and money
Build it and they will come.
With everything that has been said by Valley’s experts so far, you really have to wonder what rationale ANYONE would use to vote for changing the Master Plan of a town that gains positively nothing from such a change.
It’s pretty simple: It’s too big for the lot it is on !!!
Too big to fail.