A HIVE of rickshaws will this week transport 20 beehives to Braybrook’s Quang Minh Temple as it sets up an on-site honey production.

Temple volunteers have spent the past year developing a steep slope on its Burke St site in a joint partnership between the temple and Footscray’s Urban Honey Co.

The site can accommodate 50 beehives.

The bees have been kept at Victoria University’s Iramoo protected grasslands and will be moved by rickshaws on Wednesday, in keeping with the Urban Honey Co’s sustainable measures.

Urban Honey owner Lyndon Fenlon started the Urban Honey Co six years ago to try his hand at an environmentally-friendly business.

Mr Fenlon said the partnership would prove beneficial for Quang Minh.

“The scope for this is massive,” he said.

“The Quang Minh will be able to benefit from having bees there and there’s a lot of people wanting to learn about them.

“There’s at least a dozen things you can get out of having bees on a site – honey, vegetation, pollination, school talks.”

The new bee farm comes a year after Quang Minh launched an industrial worm farm to turn food waste into fertilizer for the temple gardens.