Why create a sustainability report? In short, an annual report on sustainability is GloryBee’s way of demonstrating a commitment to traceability, honesty, and accountability to creating a business for a...
Pacific Northwest Population to Increase by Over 10 Million This Month
GloryBee® is hosting our 44th annual Bee Weekend event on Friday, April 20 - Saturday, April 21. This free two-day community event is packed with beekeeping education, distribution of pre-ordered...
New To Beekeeping? Here Are Some Dos And Don’ts To Keep In Mind
Beekeeping is a recreational and environmental hobby that is quickly growing in popularity. In fact, the USDA reports that as of 2014, the number of colonies managed by beekeepers was...
Oregon Residential Beekeeping Legislation: What is House Bill 2653?
If you are thinking about starting to keep bees in your backyard or if you are already a residential beekeeper in Oregon, we've got great news to share! House Bill...
World Water Day 2018
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...
How Coconut Sugar can help the environment and communities
Coconut sugar is made from the sap of flower buds from coconut palm tree, and is grown in the tropics. GloryBee’s coconut sugar comes from Indonesia, from a women owned...
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...
Buzz Kill: bees are dying and why it matters to you (SCIENCE DAILY)
Interesting roundup from Science Over Everything: As long as they have existed, bees have been an important and integral part of the Earth’s ecosystem; they help flowering plants reproduce and...
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...
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...
A Short and Sweet History Of Beekeeping
There's been a ton of buzzworthy bee talk in recent news, as honeybees are struggling to survive -- and so will we, if things continue on this path. After all,...