Here is how your donations are helping more than just the bees. We're all in this together!
Beekeeping has been shown to be therapeutic for PTSD and depression as working with thousands of stinging insects necessarily brings your attention into sharp focus in the present.
The nonprofit Bees4Vets program is open to Veterans and First Responders free of charge. After successful completion of the one-year program, students get to keep the bees and equipment.
Bees4Vets instructors teach students how to not only raise and care for the bees but how to carry the lessons of mindfulness into their daily lives.
Bees4Vets founders Ginger and Dan Fenwick, 2nd and 3rd from left, and a few of the current students.
Leftmost is Barb Fenne, Biggest Little Bee City USA chairwoman.
CNBC did a wonderful video (two minutes long - check it out!) about this organization, right here in our own backyard!
To see the News Clip CLICK HERE
HSBF supports Bees4Vets
Founder of Bees4Vets Ginger, center, happily holding the unrestricted $1000 grant we presented that day. We are told our grant will fund two additional students next year!
To visit the Bees4Vets website and to donate please CLICK HERE
Update on the Rosewood Nature Study Area
Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation (TMPF) was awarded a 30-year lease to the former Rosewood Lakes Golf Course, for the purpose of restoring the property to its
natural wetlands, preserving open space, and creating a nature study area
for public benefit.
Help Save the Bees Foundation has partnered with TMPF to install and monitor 4 native bee habitats to
learn about the species of bees and pollinators that inhabit the area
.
On Oct 23, the Rosewood Nature Study Area had their annual fall
Plantemonium
, where volunteers gathered and helped plant native plants to replace the invasive weed that has been taking over since the golf course was abandoned 10 years ago. Ray Hopper and Jennifer Fields joined with Team Leader Kevin Burls, several other volunteers, and AmeriCorps technicians in the Pollinator Garden outside the clubhouse and added some 50 new plants to the collection. Other groups spread out over the 200-acre area. Over 1500 native plants have been installed to date.
A terrific 7 min. video about the current and ongoing restoration at Rosewood Nature Study Area can be found here:
Be sure to visit the Community Projects page in the Biggest Little Bee City USA website for a photo tour of the Native Bee Habitat installation and other community projects helping our pollinators.
What a sweet deal!Eating unfiltered, unheated, raw honey produced within your area, (50-mile radius or less) is like receiving a natural anti-allergy shot! Quercetin, a component of honey, has been found in studies to reduce inflammation and pollen allergy symptoms. Raw honey also contains bee pollen and bee propolis, which boosts the immune system, and builds immunity to allergens. It is credited with being anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory. It can be blood-sugar and blood-pressure stabilizing, wound healing, and free radical reducing, Honey can also promote relaxation and restful sleep.
Here's a link to a wonderful article about this seemingly magic elixir.
Please follow
to see where you can support local beekeepers and get all the benefits of this golden delicious treat!
Outside of Northern Nevada, and people looking for a specific floral source of honey can check the national honey locator, listing major honey producers in the US and Canada:
Help Save the Bees Foundation facilitates people, bees, and produce thriving in a balanced and mutually harmonious relationship, through education and collaboration both locally and nationally.
Board of Directors:
President: Robert AltenSecretary: Laurie YarboroughTreasurer: Ray HopperDirector: David DuffieDirector: Dan Rider
A huge thank you to all who have contributed to the Help Save The Bees Foundation. As we expand our outreach, please consider making a donation.To make a donation please click
here.
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