Honeybee colonies key to sustainability plan at Valley Hospital
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Last updated: Thursday May 30, 2013, 4:30 PM
BY JAMES M. O’NEILL
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Four stories up — out on the roof above the doctors, nurses and staff at The Valley Hospital’s Luckow Pavilion in Paramus — a new group of employees are busy at work creating a city out of wax.
Beekeeper Joseph Lelinho of Bee Bold Apiaries, demonstrates how bees make honey on the rooftop of the Valley Hospital’s Luckow Pavilion in Paramus, where they are keeping bees as part of an extension program to ‘go green.’
Valley has installed two colonies of honeybees in tall, pale cream boxes, which will produce honey the hospital plans to use in its patient food and also package to sell in its gift shop.
Each colony will likely produce up to 100 pounds of honey by season’s end. The beekeepers will harvest 30 pounds of that and leave the rest for the bees to eat through the winter.
“The hospital is trying to be as green as possible and this fits in with our goals for sustainability,” said Valley dining director Dawn Cascio.
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