Save the Bees
The Most Important Thing We Can do to Help Save the Bees
is to Create Bee-Friendly Environments
Bees are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honeybees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops. That’s only the start. We may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants, and so on up the food chain. This means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population of 7 billion. Our supermarkets would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables and we are losing bees at an alarming rate. Humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss.
No Bees, No Food, It’s That Simple.
Save the Bees Packages
All of our vendors practice regenerative farming planting lots of wildflowers that support native bees that are three times more effective pollinators than their own honey bees.
Hair Care
In the United States, over 550 million empty shampoo bottles
are thrown away each year and that doesn’t include conditioners.
Shampoo and Conditioner Bars
These all-natural mini bars are a great introduction to sustainable alternatives to bottled products. Our woman-owned vendor sources botanicals from small independent producers that create pollinator-friendly habitats.
Seed Paper Packaging
This packaging is infused with wildflower seeds and can be planted right in the ground. Soy ink and an environmental 4-color printing process make this as close to zero waste as possible. Information about the impact of this package, sponsor information, and how to enter the raffle in a custom-designed and printed package.
Raffle Ticket
Room Service
The attendee experience is 24/7. Some people are looking for a perfect accompaniment to their morning ritual and others want to relax after a long day. This package is great for a room drop or made available at registration.
Marketing Postcard
This custom postcard provides sponsor information and outlines how our vendors nurture bee-friendly environments.
Raffle Ticket
Janabanana
Our Banana bar with Green Banana is the real deal, made with upcycled bananas and mixed with green banana flour this bar is the perfect prebiotic snack bar on the go! Bananas while green offer a great source of resistant starch which works as a prebiotic in your gut, feeding the gut bacteria. The result is that you feel fuller for longer and your gut gets healthier and healthier.
Produced in the Vale do Ribeira region of Brazil. It is environmentally rich, with large areas of well-preserved Atlantic Forest, but economically poor and this company provides valuable jobs. Together with the local members of the community and the local government, JanaBanana is committed to promoting sports for disadvantaged young women by sponsoring a soccer team.
Recycled Preserve Container – Exclusive to our Care Packages
Preserve transforms yogurt cups into toothbrushes and take-out containers into tableware. Their Gimme 5 take-back program collects #5 plastic with drop-off sites at Whole Foods and a mail-in program.
Honey
The Ioway Tribe cultivates native medicinal plants and wildflowers across three states and provides jobs allowing Native Americans to be self-sufficient.
Ginger Candy
Add them to your hot tea or enjoy their stimulating effects on their own. Ginger increases serotonin and dopamine levels and can reduce nausea and motion sickness.
Loose Tea and Reusable Strainer
Bee Fields Farm is a woman-owned herbal center located in New Hampshire and their signature Bee Tea is a blend of the herbs that the bees love the most.
Raffle Prizes
Driving booth traffic with a raffle ticket is the most valuable aspect of our packages for a sponsor. They can have as many drawings as they want to create engagement and we have some great options that relate to the sponsor’s theme package.
Hon’s Honey
As a social enterprise, 100% of profits employ women survivors of trauma— addiction, sex trafficking, generational poverty, and abuse. Before being employed at Hon’s Honey, women commit to a holistic healing process through a life development program, free counseling, workshops, and building community.
Waxing Kara
At our Chesterhaven Beach Farm, we devote at least 40 acres of land to grow plants that bees love. We removed GMO crops and we replanted indigenous species including bee balm, coneflower, milkweed, and clovers. Lavender, fruit trees, and non-invasive perennials have also been added to bolster the bee’s food sources.
Other Ways You Can Support Bees
Keep Bees on your Company’s Roof or Lawn
They install and maintain honeybee hives on commercial and residential properties in urban centers across the US. These hives serve as data points in our national network of data-yielding beehives — they’re the foundation of our scientific research. Our mission is to improve bee health and expand the bee population.
We provide both a turnkey educational service and an exceptional, meaningful experience. Our goal is to make people fall in love with bees, build ecological awareness, and in time, more sustainable cities and food systems.
Since our founding in 2013, we’ve put more than 100,000 people directly in touch with bees, creating a strong sense of connection to nature in cities.
Buy From Companies that Support Bees
Häagen-Dazs
They have donated over one million dollars to pollinator education and research. They have over a dozen ice cream flavors that are bee-dependent, meaning they need bees for the ingredients.
Me & the Bees Lemonade
The company was started by a 4-year-old in Austin who was passionate about bees (and her great granny’s flaxseed lemonade). She started the Healthy Hive Foundation which puts donations toward foundations that benefit bees. So far, they’ve been funding bee apiaries, which is like an outdoor room to keep honeybees. Buy Me & the Bees Lemonade and the profits from each bottle go toward the Healthy Hive Foundation.
Burt’s Bees
This skincare brand started as a collection of beeswax lip balms and has since expanded into hair care, makeup, and oral care items. Their products are 100 percent natural and are sold in sustainable packaging. Burt’s Bees started foundations to help plant over 5,000 acres of pollinator habitat (that’s 15 billion seeds!).
Justin’s
Famous for their nut butters, Justin’s relies on bees to pollinate nut plants and develop quality harvest. That’s why they partnered with Xerces Society, People & Pollinators Action Network, and Growing Gardens to support sustainable agriculture, spread awareness, and educate others about pollinator conservation.
Support Bee Charities
Since 2006, we have infused over $10 million into honey bee research and $2.9 million into forage programs, resulting in science-driven resources for bees and beekeepers. We work closely with commercial beekeepers, growers, and scientists in the USA and Canada to identify challenges as they arise. We then fund projects and direct strategic efforts focused on practical questions.
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. As a science-based organization, we both conduct our own research and rely upon the most up-to-date information to guide our conservation work. Our key program areas are: pollinator conservation, endangered species conservation, and reducing pesticide use and impacts.
Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.
Signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides. Learn more about how Pollinator Partnership is dedicated exclusively to the health of pollinating animals by downloading our Protecting Pollinators, People, and the Planet brochure!
Bees for Development is a global charity that makes life better with bees. We promote sustainable beekeeping to combat poverty, build resilient livelihoods and benefit biodiversity. We share beekeeping skills with people in the poorest communities of the world, giving them a reliable, sustainable income for life. We use local skills, local materials, and local bees.
Planet Bee is dedicated to creating a green-minded generation by teaching about the importance of bees as a pathway to STEM, conservation, and innovations in agriculture, cultivating the green leaders of tomorrow through the power of science and stewardship. We teach in the US and Canada in schools, nonprofits, and corporations both virtually and in person. Our programs are provided at no cost to schools and nonprofits in our dedication to social justice, preventing any barrier to inclusion.
The Bee Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting bees, safeguarding the environment, and securing food justice through community-based education, research, habitat creation, and advocacy. We strive towards a day when all bee populations thrive in protected habitats, and are supported by an engaged global network.
The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund
The Bee & Butterfly Habitat Fund is establishing high-quality pollinator habitats to ensure honey bee and monarch butterfly populations thrive. We’re working with landowners, conservationists, scientists, and beekeepers to build healthy and sustainable pollinator habitats with maximum benefits. Our solution precisely targets pollinators’ needs by engineering projects that provide appropriate bloom diversity, density, and duration to optimize forage potential.
The Karma Honey Project was created in 2018 to increase the Puerto Rican honey bee population, spread awareness of the species, and create local jobs through ecotourism and beekeeping. Founded by entrepreneur Candice Galek after seeing the devastating effects Hurricane Irma and Maria caused the island.