Hong Kong honey
Read the transcription and choose the right word between brackets
Read the transcription and choose the right word between brackets
Hong Kong Honey. Play video
Hong Kong’s a really intense city. It’s the city that never sleeps.
Hong Kong Honey is really an organization. It’s not a company and it’s not a money-making project.
It’s really about connecting local people with local beekeepers and (1) supplying / fulfilling /
distributing them with local honey.
A lot of people actually think bees are naturally aggressive and likely to (2) sting / bite / buzz. I (3) discovered / hit on / came across that they’re actually really quite friendly and they’re only likely to (4) sting / bite / buzz if you agitate them in any way or cause any threat to them.
There’s not really that many (5) green spaces / vegetation / foliage within the city and so it was
always going to be a (6) dare / challenge / breakthrough to see if bees can actually survive and
harvest honey in the city
People are very (7) detached / unaware / uninterested from where their food actually comes
from. Food, or the origins of food, has kind of become a mystery now. Bees actually help pollinate (8) nearby / precisely/ roughly one third of our food. Without them, we’d be in (9) big /
seriously / important trouble; we’d have to do hand pollination.
I (10) check on / look into / call on the bees and open the hives about once a week. When I’m
working with the bees, I move very slowly, I’m really relaxed so everything’s really calm, it’s almost Zen-like.
I got this email from this young woman and her (11) ancient / old / elderly mother was actually
interested in keeping bees on her rooKop. Her mother grew up in the really rural part of China and her father was actually a beekeeper so she has this natural connection to nature and also to bees.
We moved the beehive to a roof and it makes me happy to think that she can (12) dwell on /
reminisce / look down on and think about her childhood when she grew up on the farm.
My name’s Michael Leung. I live in Yau Ma Tei in Hong Kong and I’m a product designer and beekeeper.
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