March 22nd is the United Nations World Water Day. By early spring here in Oregon we tend to feel like water is abundant, especially the type that falls from the...
Horticultural Hive-Mind: A Gardener’s Guide To Protecting the Bees
When you see a small, striped, stinging creature making its way from flower to flower, you might be inclined to cry out in fear. If you’re allergic or entomophobic, it’s...
The Change We Seek: Save the Bee
B Corps are businesses that are working together to create a better world, using business as a force for good. Becoming a B Corp 2 years ago is helping us...
Beekeepers are Transforming Detroit
We were inspired when we read this article about a Detroit couple who transformed their community with beekeeping. Keeping Bees is a great use of vacant space and it has...
A call to action: What can we do to create a more inclusive economy?
As a new year begins, we here at GloryBee have two questions at the top of our minds: What can we do as individuals to create a better world? How...
Buying A Package of Bees
The rewards of beekeeping extend far beyond just honey. Bees create more bountiful gardens and orchards for you and your surrounding community. In addition, they provide excellent health supplements like...
5 Practical Tips to Help Save the Bees
Save the Bee, Save the World Our world’s food supply depends on honey bees. One of every three bites of our food originates from bees pollinating the flowers that produce...
Don’t Yuck my Yum!—FoodCorps gets kids excited about eating healthy
Developed in 2009 as a part of the AmeriCorps program, FoodCorps is a national organization who works with communities to connect kids to healthy food in school. Their vision is...
Do Honey Bees compete with Native Bees?
Honey Bees were brought from Europe to North America in the 1600’s and quickly became the most important food pollinators, responsible for the pollination of over 70% of the world’s...
Can Bees and Backyard Chickens Coexist?
Urban homesteading, urban farming, and urban beekeeping… whatever you call it many families are interested in raising their own food again. From vegetable gardens and fruit trees, to raising your...
Boxes and Blossoms – Packages of Bees inspire backyard creativity
reBees make more than honey—they help plants develop seeds. Fruits and vegetables need pollination--honey bees are the perfect workers for the job! If you recently picked up your packages of...
How to compost and three reasons to start today
Composting is the earth’s way to recycle nutrients from food scraps to create food for plants. In the cycle of life, nutrients keep us going. Starting a backyard compost pile...
Plant these to SAVE the BEES
Why do we need to save the bees? In the 1980’s honey bees began to die off at alarming rates. Scientists diagnosed this tragic phenomenon as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....