This week marked the celebration of Global Festival, with an
entire week filled with events and stalls from each society, and even some
volunteering projects. The aim of the week is to celebrate diversity here at
Kingston University, and to embrace the amazing things our students groups do.
This year as part of the festival, KUSU’s BeeAware project,
which aims to raise awareness of the declining bee population, hosted a honey
tasting event to highlight what would be off the table should the honey bee die
out.
The event proved very popular, with students and staff
queueing to try some of the honey related items on show. The favourite type of
honey proved to be the orange blossom, with the chilli honey being a bit too
spicy for many. However by far the favourite item to try was the bee pollen,
which is nice added to salads or smoothies. Bee pollen is thought to be great
for energy with high protein and vitamin B levels, as well as helping with
hayfever.
When BeeAware volunteers spoke about the many products that
would be unavailable should the bee decline continue, such as cotton, lipsticks
and almonds, many seemed genuinely shocked about the actual impact of bees.
Fingers crossed this means that the group successfully added a few more to
helping save the bees.
To find out more about BeeAware, follow us on Twitter and
Facebook.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kusubees
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KUSUBees
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