I always feel that Brooklyn is kind of like an East Coast outpost of Seattle. They’ve got a huge local food scene and tons of vegetable gardeners and bike commuters. So I was excited when Flower, who makes candles for Big Dipper Wax Works, sent me this short video documentary about three urban beekeepers, John Feldman, Brandon Hoy, and Eddie Diaz, who set up an apiary on a Brooklyn rooftop.

Like the folks over at Bastille, these guys are all in the restaurant business and they understand that roofs are a vastly underutilized resource in cities. So, they installed their hives this past April, and by the looks of the background scenery, planted up a rooftop kitchen garden.

Keeping bees is illegal in New York City, but hopefully projects like this one will convince the powers that be that pollinators have a place—and play an important role—in urban environments.

The documentary was put together by Liza de Guia of foodcurated.com. You can check out more of her videos, including one about a rooftop farm in Brooklyn, at Vimeo.

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