Five ways you can support our pollinators

1. Buy local honey: Support our local bee keepers
2. Buy organic food: Avoid foods treated with pesticides
3. Plant flowers: Fill your garden, patio or porch with native, heirloom flowering plants, avoid plants treated with neonicotinoids
4. Create a bee safe habitat: Offer a shallow dish of fresh water; Avoid weed killers, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, chemicals
5. Support initiatives that protect pollinators: bees, bats and butterflies

Visit local garden shops for bee-loving plants, buy organic!
Learn more and support Pollinator Week, June 22-28, 2026.

Local resources for attracting & keeping bees
Mountain Feed & Farm Supply
Bees, supplies for homestead, harvest, preserve, organic garden supply, nursery.
Locally owned.

Santa Cruz Arboretum
University of California Santa Cruz–education, tours, nursery.

Santa Cruz Bee Guild
Local group of beekeepers—hobbyists and professionals.

More to know
Apis Arborea
Apiculture lectures, consultation, workshops, alternatives.

Bee Hub from UC Davis
Extensive resource for bee keepers.

California Plants for Native Bees
Bee loving native and garden plants from the Xerces Society.

Natural Bee Keeping
Based in the UK, information for natural bee keeping.

Pollinator Partnership Planting Guide
Handbook about planting for pollinators in our local region.

Secret Life of Native Bees
Blog post from Ensia magazine, learning about native bees.

The Pollinators Blog from Beyond Pesticides
Blog posts about saving bees, butterflies and all pollinators.

Urban Bee Lab & Best Bee Plants
UC Berkeley bee research, blog, gardening for bees.

Image: “Brown and Black Bee on Yellow Flower Nectar” from Pixabay, Pexel

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