A roof terrace, in the busy King's Cross area, under the shadow of the clock tower of St Pancras might not be the place you would expect to find honey being produced.
But that is exactly where businessman Johannes Paul has been testing out his latest creation.
Mr Paul is one of the co-founders of the company Omlet, which came up with the Eglu - the plastic pod which aimed to make keeping chickens in city gardens more viable.
He has spent the past couple of years researching and designing the Beehaus which should make bee-keeping a hobby for the masses.
The yellow plastic hive he has at his home measures a couple of metres long, by about one metre wide and has been described by some as looking like a giant cool box.
It's home to around 60,000 bees who, as well as making lots of local honey, ensure all the neighbourhood plants are pollinated.
The hives are going to be tested by Natural England, the Government agency charged with looking after our environment.
It plans to put one of the hives on the roof of its head office in Victoria.
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