partners

organizations and businesses working to conserve Pollinators, both directly and indirectly.

Supporting these groups is supporting our pollinators and, by extension, the ecosystem in which we all exist.

Thanksgiving Coffee loves the Northern California community and has operated a family owned roastery on the Mendocino Coast since 1972. They are a certified B Corp that operates in the spirit of interdependence. Their actions align with their mission, vision, and values to support the health and happiness of the world. Coffee is their medium. “Not Just A Cup, But A Just Cup” is their message.

Alliance Partners

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Conservation Works

Conservation Works protects nature and communities in the North Coast. They are our primary partner for pollinator patches and receive our rebates for Bee Bold Coffee. When we all decide to do just a little more, then small actions add up to a world of difference.

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Xa Kako Dile: 'Water Through Meadow' (Northern Pomo)

An indigenous women-led and directed non-profit organization on a working farm on the Mendocino Coast. A Learning Garden to decolonizing agriculture, and heal the land and people.

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Mendocino Art Center

Communities thrive when those who create and support the arts come together to share the joy of creative flow. For more than 60 years, the Mendocino Art Center has been the artistic heart of the North Coast, the place where art happens.

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HOPE 4 NATIVES

HOPE 4 NATIVES is an active online cultural library to share Native American stories, photos, and videos of tribal events and interviews with other Native Americans sharing and preserving the traditions of our people and the stories of their lives for future generations.

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Intentional Creativity University and Museum

Musea is working to create heart-centered poetry, music, and dance curriculum along with the Bee Bold Alliance for transformative cultural change in our ecology. Musea is the enduring influence of a matriarchal creative lineage that sparks a global art movement.

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Garden Friendly Community

A collection of local groups are supporting designating Fort Bragg, CA as a Garden Friendly Community, identifying where the community can create community gardens, educate the public about gardening techniques and benefits, and advocating for garden-friendly policies at a local level.

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Bee City USA Fort Bragg

Bee City USA is a nonprofit national organization thatfosters ongoing dialogue in urban areas to raise awareness of the role pollinators play in sustaining three-quarters of the world's plant species, and how each of us can help provide healthy habitatsfor pollinators. Fort Bragg became California’s first Bee City in 2016.

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North Coast Opportunities

North Coast Opportunities, Inc. (NCO) is a Community Action Agency that serves Lake and Mendocino Counties, as well as parts of Humboldt, Sonoma, Del Norte, and Solano Counties. NCO was established in 1968 as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty, with the mission of assisting low-income and disadvantaged people to become self-reliant.

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Noyo Food Forest

Noyo Food Forest is a 501(c)3 non-profit outdoor education center on the Mendocino Coast, serving their community with student intern and farm-to-school programs. Their learning garden, located on the Fort Bragg high school campus, includes three greenhouses and a shade house.

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Honey Hive of Mendocino

The Honey Hive of Mendocino is an evolutionary tool share for sound health. A source for Intuitive Drum Song, an ancient practice of women frame drummers connected to the Bees! Through the cultivation and remembrance of these artful skills as healing modalities, the Honey Hive of Mendocino offers sacred art for community wellbeing and the health of our shared ecology.

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California Native Plant Society: North Coast Chapter

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) works to increase understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through science, education, advocacy, horticulture, and land stewardship.

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Mendocino Coastal Beekeepers

Mendocino Coastal Beekeepers meet monthly at the Fort Bragg Library to discuss all things related to bees and beekeeping. Check our events calendar for more.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is a 47-acre public garden on the Northern California coast—one of only a few public gardens that front an ocean shore. Their heath and heather, conifer, and rhododendron collections are nationally recognized.

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School of Adaptive Agriculture

The School of Adaptive Agriculture provides the knowledge and skills to create the food and farming culture of tomorrow. Through their Residential Training Program, workshops, publications, and conferences, SAA aims to teach the crafts, skills, science, art, and business of food and fiber production. Current and aspiring farmers, ranchers, and learners of all ages are welcome to join.

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Anderson Valley Foodshed

The AV Foodshed aims to increase the capacity to grow a diverse, year-round supply of food for all who live here through education, community events, and the creation of new opportunities to grow, process, purchase and enjoy locally grown food.

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Pywacky Press

Publisher of I Spy! Who’s Using My Garden?, a workbook about pollinators and how you can help protect them.

Word of Mouth magazine

Launched in 2016, Word of Mouth magazine shares the stories and products that make Mendocino County unique. Providing behind-the-scenes access to visionary wineries, farms and food artisans, Word of Mouth provides insights and opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

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Winery Partners

These wineries are using grapes grown without the use of pesticides. Supporting them helps our native bee populations.

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