An innovative project in this regional city shows how an urban landscape can be transformed into an agricultural oasis — and a perfect spot to have lunch on busy workdays.
abc.net.au/news/wollongong-rooftop-car-park-becomes-native-bee-sanctuary/101939412The top level of a multi-storey concrete car park in the middle of a city might seem an unlikely place to create a native bee sanctuary.They saw the concrete slab in Wollongong's CBD as the perfect site for an oasis of native plants that would attract small native bees and help them thrive.
The stingless native bees will forage on vegetation in plant beds around the city's streets and gardens, as well as plants growing in the bee sanctuary.Mr Williams and Mr Teevan established the bee sanctuary after receiving a $5,000 grant from an alcohol company.Mr Teevan works as a bar tender and has developed a love for native Australian flavours and the bees that help pollinate the plants that produce them.
"We get a sense of doing something great for the community, but we've got other jobs that pay our rent."Mr Williams said as an Indigenous man, creating the urban bee sanctuary was his way of teaching people to care for country.
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