https://www.beekc.org/home daily 1.0 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/d69d27db-35e5-41c3-9e25-d986fb2feac4/januarynewsletter.jpeg Home Our monthly newsletter contains news about events, beekeeping tips and seasonal practices, interesting articles, links to helpful resources and more! (Read the current issue.) We tried to make it more of a small magazine than a simple organizational newsletter, and we don’t add anyone to other lists or send out annoying solicitations. (No information at all is recorded other than your email address, which is not shared with any other party.) If you’d like to subscribe, the link is at the bottom of our contact page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/eb54780e-b4dd-42ab-89f9-2385e78e1cb5/ACS_0322.jpg Home Beekeeping is not only important to our local ecosystem, it’s also an incredibly fun and rewarding hobby! With a little education, anyone can set up a few hives and harvest honey, pollen and more, and enjoy the benefits of living alongside these little animals. Learn more: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/1634569875764-529UJ98VDGR724QAQN43/IMG_4436.jpg Home Help Bee KC by volunteering, donating (every amount helps), and signing up for news about workshops and events. With donations our goal is to add positions that will enable us to not only continue to keep honey bees but also grow into an organization that creates native insect habitats all over the city! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/71cf6214-d4ad-4cb7-81ac-757d3d993a0e/IMG_2309.jpg Home Native bees and pollinators need even more help than honey bees! There are hundreds of species of native bee in our region, their travel range is smaller than a honey bee’s and they are not social insects; they only lay eggs and move on, no colonies to defend. We’re working on a page for our work with natives, for now check out the MO Department of Conservation’s site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/1634569812551-B3NE7IJ4U3H24TSQRNQX/ACS_0149.jpg Home Working with community gardens & urban farms, restaurants & breweries, homeowners, real estate developers & more, Bee KC promotes honey bee culture and native pollinators in Kansas City. Honey is given free to the hosts, pollination and ecodiversity increases, and tax benefits are created for our partners. https://www.beekc.org/mission daily 0.75 2024-08-08 https://www.beekc.org/contact daily 0.75 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/1634655013909-62LYR3IH4QSBOXNSFBDY/ACS_0130.jpeg Contact - Help Our Cause There are many ways you can get involved with Bee KC. If you’d like to learn more about beekeeping and related issues, we offer workshops and classes as well as volunteer opportunities that allow you to get valuable experience working hives, extracting honey, rendering wax and more. Our instagram (@beekcmo) is a great place to stay up to date. To help sustain our organization, anyone can donate any amount. Organizations or individuals can sponsor hives or entire bee yards, and donors receive invitations to all events and perks like honey, candles and more! Urban gardens and farms, restaurants, developers and others can place hives and native bee houses on their property—Bee KC will install and maintain hives, and do community outreach, while the partner receives honey, pollination benefits, tax incentives and more. For more info, use our contact page to email us and sign up for our newsletter. Thanks so much, and bee love forever! https://www.beekc.org/donate daily 0.75 2025-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/a6fd5040-5ebb-4e27-92b3-1564972a7954/ACS_0255.jpeg Make a Donation - Your gift makes a big difference Bee KC currently manages 70 hives all over KC, giving honey to the hive hosts, spreading the love of bees and providing pollination benefits to the entire area. Your donation will help us with these costs: Full Hive Materials: $400 per hive Beekeeping Tools: $100+ Bees for One Hive: $180 A Queen Bee: $40 Bee Suit: $100-200 Observation Hive: $200+ Flyers, signs, and stickers: $1000+ per year Honey Extractor: $1000 Native Bee Home materials: $75 Payroll For One Week: $1000 per employee (Simple hive management for our sites is a full time job in itself, then there are school visits, fundraising, wild beehive rehoming, and more) In addition, our free special events and beekeeping workshops can cost us a few hundred dollars, and extra costs such as gas, pest control measures, supplementary food for the bees, miscellaneous supplies, and more add up. We appreciate any amount you can give, thank you for supporting our work! https://www.beekc.org/beekeeping daily 0.75 2023-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613f58cfcbe42f2db3462567/035c537e-d1a6-4425-b31d-1cb01226d138/ACS_0322.jpg Beekeeping - Want to learn more about bees? Help us add beekeepers and bees to KC! We do frequent hive inspections for any number of folks, and we have all the necessary equipment and suits (even kids’ sizes). If you’re thinking of starting your own hives, we put together a page with some frequently asked questions. The best place to stay up-to-date on events is our Instagram (@BeeKCMO). 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