Lessons from UTM beehives on our connection with nature.

Professor Damian Maddalena, an environmental scientist and landscape ecologist at UTM, began beekeeping after pondering his next steps in sustainable living. While in North Carolina, he had already cultivated vegetable gardens, planted fruit trees, and raised chickens. His interest in beekeeping grew around 2018 when a neighbor offered to help him build a hive. Now, Maddalena manages honeybee colonies on the green roof of the Instructional Centre and other sites, integrating beekeeping into his ecological and agricultural explorations.