And while some hotels harvest and use their honey at their spa or restaurant, the Mercer in New York, which installed hives on its roof last spring with beekeeper Ian Sklarsky, prefers to just let its 70,000 bees be. “Currently, there are no plans to bottle, sell or utilize the honey in the restaurant,” says Michel Heredia, the director of sales and marketing. Instead, he says, the hotel is simply on a mission “to invest in the growing movement to protect, preserve and nurture the fragile bee population in Manhattan.”
