Sweet returns as St. Louis businesses take up beekeeping

The 20,000 honeybees now residing on the roof of the Chase Park Plaza is just one example of how beehives have become a way for urban businesses to generate local honey and sales.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports other St. Louis businesses with beehives include the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch hotel downtown, which also has rooftop hives, and restaurants Eleven Eleven Mississippi and Vin de Set, which jointly operate a greenhouse and garden in Lafayette Square.

The operations also combat colony collapse disorder, a condition threatening bee populations globally.

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