apiaries - Cleveland Convention Center
Apiary behind the Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
The apiaries -- along with several chickens, a vegetable garden, and some hogs -- are part of a sustainable farming project the convention center's food vendor has run since April 2014.
Levy Restaurants executive chef Matt Del Regno started with just three beehives. The project has grown to 14 hives, which produce enough honey for all of the coffee and tea service at the convention center, as well as salad dressings, granola bars, desserts and even lip balms.
Del Regno then added six chickens in 2015, which produce about 25 percent of the eggs used at the convention center. Two pigs are being bred for "Farmer" Lee Jones -- a sustainable agriculture pioneer and owner of The Chef's Garden (a sustainable farm that produces fine produce for gourmet restaurants).
apiaries - Cleveland Convention Center
Apiary behind the Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
The apiaries -- along with several chickens, a vegetable garden, and some hogs -- are part of a sustainable farming project the convention center's food vendor has run since April 2014.
Levy Restaurants executive chef Matt Del Regno started with just three beehives. The project has grown to 14 hives, which produce enough honey for all of the coffee and tea service at the convention center, as well as salad dressings, granola bars, desserts and even lip balms.
Del Regno then added six chickens in 2015, which produce about 25 percent of the eggs used at the convention center. Two pigs are being bred for "Farmer" Lee Jones -- a sustainable agriculture pioneer and owner of The Chef's Garden (a sustainable farm that produces fine produce for gourmet restaurants).