Bee patient with our attempt at a blog.

Its about time we get this blog acitve. Be Patient we are working on a system to frequent updates. This will be a way for us to highlight the work students are doing. Here is our first one!!!

Marine Affairs, policy, and advocacy students are always bothering Rob for a class pet. The vermicomposting worms aren’t enough. So they are collaborating with Bee University and Earth Matter to enhance our urban farming with bees.

Last Friday, they received three pounds of bees from Kingston, NY, and transferred them to their new hive at Earth Matter. With our Queen and hive now active, the girls are accepting their Queen. Students are excited to venture into this arena and learn some new agriscience and urban beekeeping to enhance their knowledge of how critical our human and natural resource spaces are interconnected. This supervised agricultural experience, under the tutelage of Earth Matter and Bee University, will help students conduct research on the crucial role of bees in both the environment and human society, primarily due to their role as pollinators. While engaging in this learning, students explore the controversy and exploitation of beekeeping in human development, as well as its potential negative impacts on local environments. Students are learning to balance both the needs of humans and the environment while gaining hands-on skills to manage this livestock and our local ecosystems on Governors Island.

After the first few days, the bees have accepted the queen, started collecting pollen, and making comb. We are now waiting for the queen to make her mating flight out of the hive.

More updates to come! If anyone wants to help support helping us maintain our Blog, let us know!