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Bees are an integral part of our natural and human environments. Without them, the majority of our flowering plants would not reproduce and the colorful and delicious life we now know would cease to exist.
Through our research, projects, and education programs, we are regenerating soil, bees, and communities. We envision a future where kids frolic in pastures of flowers buzzing with bees, alongside healthy and happy ecological farmers and ranchers.
We rely on support from people who care. Your collective dollars will help us continue our work!
BGO (the Bee Girl Organization) is a grassroots nonprofit centered on bee habitat conservation through research, regeneration, and education.
We manage three projects to achieve our mission:
Our “Kids and Bees” program teaches kids, in a positive and engaging way, why our bees are essential to everyday life and how the kids can be bee heroes.
The “Regenerative Bee Pasture” project is a multifaceted initiative comprised of research, technical discovery, and community education.
"Bee Friendly Vineyards" curators value healthy soil, beautiful grapes, and complex wines, as well as ecological, financial, and community health. Our partners create functional, resilient landscapes by building better bee habitat in and around their vines.
The “Regenerative Bee Pasture” project is a multifaceted initiative comprised of research, technical discovery, and community education. While working with bees as a research assistant at the University of Missoula in the late 2000s, BGO Founder and Executive Director Sarah Red-Laird envisioned that the solution to the current crises of honey bee colony and native bee losses lay within the problem – agriculture. She left academia to pursue a career in farmer-directed bee habitat conservation to find the best possible "win-win-win" solutions for farmers and ranchers, and bees and beekeepers. This journey has led BGO to regenerative agriculture and understanding that rebuilding soil is the first step to healthy bees, livestock, and people. We are working hard to develop a low-maintenance and inexpensive flower-rich "regenerative bee pasture" to integrate into established or degraded pasture for an environmentally and economically improved area for little (bees, soil invertebrates) and large (cows, sheep) livestock to graze.
I founded The Bee Girl Organization in 2010. In the decade since I have worked simultaneously as executive director, lead beekeeper, principal scientific investigator, education director, and so much more! This is the story of most small, grassroots nonprofit leaders: we wear many hats — or in my case beekeeping veils, trucker hats, and up-dos. My team of support staff, interns, board members, and I have given over 185 classes, workshops, and presentations and reached over 85,000 people (including 15,875 kids) in six countries and 25 US states. In a time of division, we connect people through a shared mission of healing our world — for the bees. —Sarah Red-Laird
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Together we’ve become volunteers in places we would have never expected, planted milkweed for butterflies, provided books to kids in need, helped save endangered turtles, helped turn excess food into nutrition, helped bring art to youth, educated one another about how we are connected to our delicate food systems, helped save abandoned horses and given old dogs new hope, watched foster youth shine in the spotlight of movie making, helped clean tires out of rivers… we could go on and on and on. It is an absolute joy to be a part of such an amazing network of humans making a difference.
“ALMA reconnects the lives of the formerly incarcerated back to the fabric of society. Our participants have the chance at attaining gainful employment and becoming self-sufficient. Urban Farming helps everyone involved explore the relationships between plants, animals and humans as a way of creating a profound connection to both nature and their community.” - ALMA Backyard Farms
While we’re writing this and you’re reading it, Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes is out there, finding ways to provide food to more people in need throughout Santa Cruz County, where one of three residents are reported to be food insecure.
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