A new fruit tree orchard was planted on-site at the West Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House campus to increase families’ access to local and healthy food. In the orchard, a specially designed Bee Hotel art piece was created by artist Meei Ling Ng. The Bee Hotel will bring solar panels to eye level and provide a beautiful, interactive element for residents to enjoy. The Bee Hotel is made from recycled materials, and is powered by solar energy. It will encourage bees to stay at the hotel and help pollinate the fruit trees, herb, berry, and vegetable plants.
Meei Ling used her extensive artistic and ecological knowledge to create a series of edible landscapes that combine urban farming with site-specific art installation...
Working with nature as a material or media, Meei Ling's sculptural installation works reimagine public interactions with the margins of urban space, systems of community and narrative real-time experience...