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Cool Thing We Want #305: For The Kickass Urban Beehive Concept To Become Reality

Via CNET (hat tip reader “D.S.”), we discover Philips’ urban beehive: “The urban beehive consists of an outside flower pot with a bee entryway above it. A glass container full of honeycomb frames sits on the inside to tempt the little buzzers into making a home. A pull on the bottom of the hive is a smoke actuator that lets you calm the bees down before you pop off the cover or collect honey. Bees are incredible creatures, but you don’t want to piss them off.” Sadly, it’s only a concept.

EVERY COOL THING WE WANT

UBC Farm’s Spring Workshops Make a Strong Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty

A full run of practical, well-built sessions that move from soil to kitchen, giving you a reason to start something new.

2026 CSA Guide: The Best Produce Box Programs in Vancouver. Score Before It’s Too Late!

Looking for a CSA in Metro Vancouver? Our 2026 guide breaks down the best produce box and farm share programs, with pricing, pickup details, and honest recommendations.

We Want to Jetset to Montreal for the Menu Extra & Dan Climan Pop-Up This July

This summer the Montreal artist, who sports cred as an Emily Carr School of Art + Design graduate, is growing his food-art relationship with a series of lux, collab pop-up we can only dream of attending. Time to buy a lottery ticket!

We Want to Quench Our Thirst for Spring with KPU’s New 桂 Reverie Beer

Our appetite for tasty and creative craft beer is bottomless. So the moment news of what students enrolled in the Diploma in Brewing and Brewery OperationsKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have been brewing up lately landed in our inbox, we got awfully thirsty...