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Adopt-A-Bee!

Tohono Chul
Tohono Chul
Tohono Chul
Tohono Chul
1 Campaign |
Tucson, United States
$3,240 USD 196 backers
216% of $1,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Choose your Perk

The Cactus Bee

$5 USD
115 out of 500 of claimed

The Blue Mason Orchard Bee

$20 USD
32 out of 200 of claimed

The Leaf Cutter Bee

$55 USD
25 out of 100 of claimed

The Carpenter Bee

$1,000 USD
0 out of 4 of claimed

Adopt Today

We are all a buzz here at Tohono Chul about our inaugural Adopt-A-Bee! By adopting a bee, you further our efforts for a sustainable bee-friendly garden. For your contribution, you receive naming rights to a bee, a digital photo of your bee to share with friends and family, and an exclusive invite to “meet your bee” at the Pollinator Party on Friday, June 24! Another perk to adopting a bee is you get to send it to Camp Mok Chi’, where they learn to hone their life skills in botanical identification, woodworking, and vegetation maintenance. Join us in raising awareness of the importance of the little creatures and their contribution to our local and international food economy! 

 

Within 48 hours of purchase we email you for your bee's new adopted name!

 

 

 

 

Pollinate, Celebrate

 

As part of your purchase you’ll receive an exclusive invite to the Pollinator Party! Thanks to Edible Baja Arizona, you get to “meet your bee”* and see their progress. What party would this be without locally-distilled spirit sampling from Three Wells Tequila and Whiskey del Bac? Not to mention, The Garden Bistro is hosting a molecular gastronomy bar with bee pollen and honeycomb. Let your palate explore the terroir in honey with the regional honey bar hosted by Dos Manos Apiaries. There also is a literal buzz about this party as musicians from Tucson Symphony Orchestra perform Flight of the Bumblebee.

 

 

National Pollinator Week

 

National Pollinator Week (June 20-26, 2016) highlights bats, birds, butterflies and bees for their contribution that ensures the survival of our terrestrial ecosystems. It is estimated that 90% of all flowering plants depend on animal pollinators to help them reproduce and that includes about 35% of the world’s food crops – consider that one bite in three at the dinner table depends on animal pollinators. Fruits and vegetables come immediately to mind, but foodstuffs from your cup of coffee in the morning to that glass of wine with an artisanal chocolate bar at the end of the day are also the direct result of animal pollination. In fact, in the United States, the pollination services provided by honey bees and other insects directly impact 150 different food crops and result in $20 billion worth of agricultural products each year.

 

A bonus to your bee adoption is an exclusive invite to our Pollinator Party on Friday, June 24. The party not only promotes National Pollinator Week, but honors the work of these little winged things. Beyond the enjoying the regional honey bar, samples of Three Wells Tequila and Whiskey del Bac, and molecular gastronomy with bee pollen and honeycomb, we want you to get to know your bees. Meet experts in the community of beekeeping, bee habitat building, and bee knowledge.

 

Discuss urban beekeeping with Dos Manos Local Apiaries. They are committed to keeping bees using, natural, treatment-free methods, and being a model to show that anybody can keep bees in Tucson, if they want to. This is a great opportunity to see if backyard beekeeping is for you.

 

Local Artist, Greg Corman, is displaying a collection of bee habitats to show you how you can make your yard more bee-friendly with sculptural, functional art. Visit all the other Corman bee habitats in our gardens.

 

What Were We Thinking?

 

The mission of Tohono Chul is to enrich people’s lives by connecting them with the wonders of nature, art, and culture in the Sonoran Desert regions and inspiring wise stewardship of the natural world. Our passion for preservation and conservation comes through in our educational programs and outreach efforts and has inspired our latest campaign, Adopt-A-Bee. We decided that a fun and quirky project would excite and engage people in the community and throughout the world. Adopt-A-Bee was created to not only increase the awareness of the various bee species in Southern Arizona, but to also promote the importance of bees as they sustain the local and international food economy. Our gardens rely heavily on a plethora of bee species to facilitate plant pollination, whether it’s for food sourcing from our Ethnobotany Garden, for the surrounding grounds featuring native plants, or to sustain product for our Retail Greenhouse.

 

Adopt-A-Bee is an opportunity to educate people about the Sonoran Desert bee species varieties, the diverse habitats bees occupy, idiosyncratic bee behavior, bee-friendly yards, and how bees (and other pollinators) contribute to the survival of our terrestrial ecosystem. We believe with making this fun and interactive we will increase an encouragement for a healthy and sustainable bee population.

 

 

*We hope you can appreciate the humor and whimsy in the Adopt-A-Bee Campaign as we make no guarantees in actually being able to tell any bee apart long enough to name one (insert your bee name here). This silly campaign was created as a vehicle to inspire pollinator education and promote why the bee community it so important to our survival. We also hope you will understand that when brainstorming names for your bee you should skip anything rated over PG or containing profanity, and should keep that bee naming skill to yourself. Also, as these bees are wild and do not perform on command we make no guarantees that you can “meet your bee” or shake its tarsal claw. This is all in good fun, enjoy.

 

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