Angeline Becomes Florida’s First Master-Planned Community to Partner with Beewise on World Bee Day
There’s something fitting about making history on a day that belongs to the bees.
On May 20th, World Bee Day, Metro Development Group officially launched its partnership with Beewise, maker of the AI-powered robotic BeeHome™ system, with a celebratory event right at the Farm at Angeline in Land O’ Lakes. The milestone makes Angeline the first master-planned community in Florida to incorporate the BeeHome™ into a residential setting, and the story earned well-deserved coverage from both WFLA News Channel 8 and FOX 13 Tampa Bay.
Why This Partnership Matters
Bees pollinate 75% of the crops we eat and are essential to the flowering plants that keep our communities healthy and vibrant. Yet more than half of all U.S. bee colonies die every year, a staggering rate that poses a very real threat to our food supply. The need for a smarter, more scalable solution has never been more urgent.
That’s exactly what Beewise was built to address. The BeeHome™ is an autonomous robotic beehive system that continuously monitors hive conditions, detects threats before colonies fail, and combines AI-driven analysis with precision robotics to improve pollination outcomes and reduce colony loss. Unlike traditional beekeeping, it can operate remotely with robotics precise enough to pick up an individual frame, inspect it, and report findings back to technicians in real time, all without ever missing a warning sign.
“Bee populations are essential to both agriculture and ecosystem health, and their decline has very real implications for food security,” said Saar Safra, CEO of Beewise. “Angeline is designed to bring innovation, wellness and education together in one place, and this partnership gives students and residents a direct connection to technology addressing a global challenge.”
Why Angeline?
Angeline was always envisioned as more than a place to live. Home to Tampa Bay’s first residential working farm, it’s a community where agriculture, education, and healthy living are woven into everyday life, and where innovation isn’t an amenity, it’s a foundation.
The Beewise partnership deepens that vision in a meaningful way. Nestled within 6,200 acres in Pasco County, Angeline is also home to Speros, Moffitt Cancer Center’s transformative 775-acre medical and research city positioning the community as a regional hub for science and innovation-driven growth. Adding the BeeHome™ to the Farm at Angeline brings that same spirit to the soil, connecting residents and neighbors to cutting-edge conservation in their own backyard.
“Angeline was created as a place where innovation is part of everyday life, and this partnership brings that idea into focus in a very real way,” said Lisa Gibbings, Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Metro Development Group. “By giving students direct access to this technology, we are connecting education with real-world applications in agriculture and sustainability through a single hands-on experience.”
A World Bee Day to Remember
The launch event wasn’t just a ribbon-cutting, it was a classroom. Approximately 40 students from Angeline Academy of Innovation joined the celebration for a hands-on STEM experience at the farm, exploring live bee colonies and seeing firsthand how artificial intelligence, robotics, sensors, and computer vision are used to monitor hive health and combat colony collapse in real time. For many of them, it was their first up-close look at the intersection of technology and environmental stewardship, and exactly the kind of experience that makes Angeline unlike any other community in the Tampa Bay area.
We’re incredibly proud to be leading the way on this, and we’re grateful to both WFLA and FOX 13 for helping share the story. Read the full coverage from WFLA News Channel 8 and FOX 13 Tampa Bay, and if you’d like to experience the Farm at Angeline for yourself, we’d love to welcome you.
