Do Something Reel Film Presentation-Vanishing of the Bees

in partnership with Ypsilanti Food Co-op and Ypsilanti District Library Whitaker Road

Whole Foods Market, Ypsilanti Food Co-op and the Ypsilanti District Library Whitaker Road Location are co-sponsoring a showing of the important documentary, Vanishing of the Bees. Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables.

Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees.