Print Edition: May 22, 2013
Summer is almost upon us, and with it the anticipation of a delicious blueberry season – a season that is now at risk, due to a bee shortage.
In previous years, bees have been sent from across the country to help pollinate the large amount of plants here in the Lower Mainland.
This year many of these suppliers are no longer available.
As UFV professor Tom Baumann explains, “the lack of previous bee suppliers, especially from the prairies, has left a vacuum – a vacuum that cannot be filled locally.”
In the Fraser Valley alone, an estimated 120 million pounds of blueberries will be harvested this coming season – a harvest completely dependent on bees.
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A 10-foot-tall sculpture now looms over NYC s Rockefeller Center Channel Gardens, gazing up at 30 Rock a stance we ve all taken at some point, whether as a tourist or a passerby.
The stainless steel artwork by American artist Tom Friedman was just unveiled at the entrance to the gardens located on Fifth Avenue between 49th and 50th streets, and it ll be standing tall until March 19.
Titled Looking Up, the humanoid figure was created with crushed aluminum foil pans which, through a process of lost wax casting, retains the imprint of the original materials. The sculpture combines Friedman s interests in the supernatural and experiential, according to Rockefeller Center s developer Tishman Speyer.