North American Pollinator Alliance (N.A.P.A. Bees) founder Jorge Garibay works with regenerative farmers and homesteading families in the Midwest because he knows that they will be the stewards of honeybees in the future. He believes that bees are not dying off in this country, nor in the rest of the world, but they are running out of habitat.

With close to 3 million hives commercially managed to help feed Americans and pollinate feed crops for livestock, Kansas is one of the states with the fewest number of beehive colonies. But we are changing that.

His company consults on creating honeybee habitat, raises winter hearty bees, manages hives on farms for pollination and honey production, and sells treatment-free honey.

N.A.P.A. Bees will be presenting a case for how honeybees fit into a truly regenerative farming/ranching/homesteading system and what steps you need to prepare for this venture.

"The creation of the United States can be found in the footsteps of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). Brought to the east coast of North America in 1622 it would be 231 years before the honeybee reached the west coast. Disease, hostile competitors, harsh climates, and geographical barriers blocked the advance of honeybees and humans alike.

Their greatest advantage was each other. The honeybee provided honey, wax, and propolis for human consumption and market, they pollinated the European seeds and saplings that the immigrants brought with them, and they changed the environment (many times in advance of the human immigrants) making it more acceptable to the imported livestock by helping to spread white clover and other English grasses."