The “Bee Aware” team from North Carolina is working to help revitalize honey bee populations and to inform the public and businesses about the harmful effects of specific chemicals on honey bee populations and the harmful ramifications to human, animal and plant life. As part of their project, the group has presented to local garden clubs, Christmas tree farms, businesses, visitors, and tourists about honeybee science. They’ve also presented scientific information about honeybees to school across the region, educating more than a thousand High Country elementary schoolers on the importance of honeybees and what can be done to protect them. The Bee Award Team was awarded the $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant for their project, which will include the opening of a bee sanctuary in their community this spring.
More information about the Bee Aware team and all of their current projects in on their website, www.beeawarenc.org
and also in this article in the Mountain Times.
Please give us the location/county/school of these teens. It would be good to start this in a lot of counties across our state. I am a beekeeper in Catawba County and very interested in this project. thanks! jtjt@abts.net
ReplyDeleteHello, they are a homeschool group from western NC. All the details about the team, including their website, is in the story link from the Mountain Times, mentioned at the bottom of the post.
DeleteGrandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation is also partnering with the Bee Aware Science team to develop a bee preserve on Grandfather Mountain as well as to install some educational signage and brochures to educate our visitors on the important role bees play as pollinators in our environment as well as our own food supply. I am really impressed with the students, and we are honored they have partnered with us to improve our educational programming regarding pollinators.
DeleteJesse Pope
Director of Education and Natural Resources
Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation
naturalist@grandfather.com
828-733-2013