The Italian honey bees are excellent pollinators and some of the easiest to work with, making them the ideal candidate for a rooftop urban beer farm. How is the honey used?

A member of Boston University’s Beekeeping Club with their new bees. The club received a new hive of Italian Honey Bees in March — the first shipment of bees since a mite infestation killed their ...

Together, in 2022, they installed rescued local hives containing 160,000 Italian honeybees. This past summer, the bees produced 13 gallons of honey for the restaurant.

Beekeeping clubs are not uncommon among more rural high schools, but this North Jersey city school decided to start one, too.