She’s a Blue Orchard Mason Bee trying to make it in the world and we want to share her adventure with classrooms and community groups across the country. Bee A Buddy is an exciting new comic from The Bee Conservancy that follows our buzzy heroine through a narrative of friendship and overcoming challenges with a focus on bee biodiversity. This bee-utifully illustrated book is a fantastic way to learn unique traits of different bee and pollinator species!.
Because many classrooms in underserved areas lack access or funds for new educational materials, we want to distribute copies of Bee A Buddy to students and community organizations for free.
For every $5 you donate, TBC will be able to print and ship one copy of Bee A Buddy. Our goal today is to distribute 1,000 copies in 2024.Can you help us meet (and break) our goal for Giving Tuesday?
Use the button below to designate your contribution towards our Bee A Buddy Campaign and bring free materials to students who are excited to learn more about pollinators and the importance they play in our world.
At HONEYCUT we realize we can be part of the solution by educating, raising awareness and instilling a sense of urgency into our customers who care. Your generation is so in touch with giving back and getting involved. We love that you know you have the power to make a difference. In this part of our website, we will devote time and energy into educating and entertaining in an effort to keep you informed and involved in this crucial situation.
Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world’s crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?
In May 2014 around 1,000 Greenpeace volunteers and activists in 110 cities across Europe participated in this European day of action to spotlight the crucial role of bees and other pollinators for our food and agriculture. The song “To bee or not to bee” was composed by the famous Greek band Locomondo to support the Greenpeace campaign to Save the Bees
Red-Laird transformed a childhood fascination with honeybees into an impassioned career as a research scientist, educator, conservationist and revered beekeeper. From her first taste of freshly harvested honeycomb at age three, through the undergraduate research program at the University of Montana, she cultivated the art and science of beekeeping. Today, Red-Laird is based in Ashland where she educates the next generation of honeybee keepers through her Kids and Bees program and the Southern Oregon University Beekeeping Club. She also helps farmers and other land managers conserve bee habitat.
Watch this quirky bee-inspired hip hop number.
Did you know that honey is available in a multitude of varieties? When bees visit mostly one kind of flower as they gather nectar, the honey they produce has a unique taste, aroma and color from that particular flower. Other honeys are delicious blends of floral sources.
