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San Francisco Hotels Build Buzz With Rooftop Beehives
Some San Francisco hotels have built beehives on their rooftops, and in return they get honey for cocktails, food and spa treatments.
A number of beehives are sitting on top of the W Hotel in San Francisco, on April 18, 2016.
At least seven San Francisco hotels have built rooftop beehives that produce honey for food, cocktails and spa products. Convention and tourist hotels from Union Square to Fisherman's Wharf say they're doing their small part to combat worldwide honeybee colony collapse.
Beekeeper Spencer Marshall checks a number of hives on a garden deck outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on April 18, 2016.
Fairmont's first beehives were built in 2008 at the company's hotels in Toronto and in Vancouver in an effort to help combat Colony Collapse Disorder. Since then, dozens have been installed at Fairmonts from Seattle to China and Africa.
Beekeeper Roger Garrison, left, and hotel general manager Michael Pace look over beehives on top of the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on April 18, 2016.
The honey produced at the Clift's is used in the hotel's Peerless Purple drink with gin-infused lavender, honey syrup and lavender bitters, and its compressed watermelon salad with lavender-infused honey and goat cheese.
