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Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others Follow?(Civil Eats) Carrots, baby kale, and spinach never tasted so sweet. After emerging from a multi-year legal battle over gardening, Nicole Virgil is looking forward to cultivating those vegetables and more this winter in her backyard. Growing one’s own food, central to huma …

First and foremost, a THANK YOU to all of our Bee Farmers, Bee Buy Back Participants, and Harvesting Volunteers this season—we even had a volunteer come all the way from Canada! Thanks to your bee raising efforts, we've received, harvested, cleaned, and stored around 350,000 mason bee cocoons so far this year, and we're still counting! Yes, that's right! Our Bee Buy Back program is still open!You can take pride knowing that your region-specific mason bee cocoons will go to next season' …

Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Support Saving America's Pollinators Act! During Pollinator Week 2021 in June, U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) reintroduced Saving America’s Pollinators Act (SAPA) to reverse ongoing declines in wild and managed pollinators. The bill suspends the use of neonicotinoid (neonic) insecticides and other …