Round up this November to support the bees! Bee Regenerative is a grassroots female-led nonprofit whose mission is centered on bee habitat conservation through research, regeneration, art, & education.
Bee Regenerative is a “Bee Girl” co-brand. While founder, Sarah Red-Laird (aka Bee Girl), is still the lead worker bee, this work has expanded out of the hive and into a field full of a number of worker bees supporting the mission and vision. Bee Regenerative staff and contractors work shoulder-to-shoulder with ranchers and wine makers, universities, government entities, policy makers, and partner nonprofits to understand and address issues in agriculture that affect bees, and to create collaborative win-win solutions for bees and producers. Bee Regenerative's fieldwork takes them outside of the Rogue Valley, but their HQ has been here since 2011, and the majority of their community and educational events remain rooted here in Southern Oregon.
Bee Regenerative works with agricultural producers to plant and preserve flowers for bees on thousands of acres across the West. Bee Regenerative is working on conservation, research, education, and art projects from the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon, through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Northern Prairie, and into the Great Plains. Though their roots are in beekeeping, their current work has also led them into regenerative agriculture, native bee conservation, and wildlife coexistence.
Bee Regenerative conducts research and collects data on floral communities, bee species abundance and diversity, floral community change over time, bee community change over time, soil health, land use and stockmanship practices. They educate community stakeholders like farmers, ranchers, vineyard managers, policy makers, kids, and the general public on their discoveries through one-on-one kitchen table meetings, one-on-one and small group pasture, vineyard, and farm walks, large public speaking and educational events, and digital media. Education creates opportunities for stakeholders to make different choices, invest in new ideas, and try new approaches towards their individual impact on climate change, ecosystem services, and carbon sequestration.
Funds will be used to support ongoing programs, including: Bison & Bee Habitat Project, Coexistence & Bee Habitat Regeneration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Bee Friendly Vineyards, Bee Habitat in Cyanotype, Bee Hopeful, and Bee Girl Honey.