Pollinate Minnesota Partners
The initiatives at the heart of Pollinate Minnesota are shaped by and for the community. We are collaborators and connectors and are honored to do the work we do in Minneapolis and our great state.
We partner with:
Educational Apiary Partners to keep our bees.
Schools, youth groups, churches, farmers markets, libraries, businesses, and many more to provide in-hive and on-site educational opportunities.
Stakeholder groups on advocacy initiatives.
Individual and Business donors.
A big thank you to The Pesticide Action Network who serves as our fiscal sponsor.
Contact us (erin@pollinatemn.org, 612.245.6384) for more information on partnerships.
Educational Apiary Partners
At Pollinate Minnesota, we're beekeepers, establishing our Educational Apiaries at community gardens, parks and schools in the Twin Cities. As an organization that loves teaching with bees, we need public places to keep those hives. We work with places interested in the educational work we do and our broader mission.
Our educational partners include:
MACALESTER COLLEGE KATHERINE ORDWAY NATURAL HISTORY STUDY AREA
Ordway is Macalester's ecology research station in Inver Grove Heights and is a sweet spot of forest, prairie, and lake for conducting cool research like scavenger impact on buried animals (to compare to dinosaur bones!) and long range forest and archeological surveys, among many other things.
Are you an organization in the south metro looking for an in hive program? Contact Erin for info on field trips, work retreats, private dates or other classes at Ordway this year.
MInneapolis Public Schools- four apiaries- Loring Elementary, South High, Dowling Elementary & MPLS Culinary and Nutrition Center
We’ve partnered with Minneapolis Public Schools since 2017.
Sun Ray Library
Success academy
JD Rivers Children’s garden-Minneapolis parks
Midwest Special Services
Delasalle High school
Historic partners
URBAN ROOTS
Urban Roots non-profit based on the East Side of Saint Paul with the mission to build vibrant and healthy communities through food, conservation and youth development. They run a paid youth internship program, hiring youth ages 14-18 to work in programs centered on gardening, cooking, and conservation.
Urban Roots sees the honey bees as the perfect link between these three programs. Urban Roots Conservation Crews are active in the restoration of our local parks, providing essential habitat and corridors for pollinators. They are now keeping their own bees! Learn more about Urban Roots here. We were honored to lend our voice to their Not Your Garden Variety Show virtual fundraiser in 2020.
STEADY HAND FARM
Steady Hand Farm was the family farm of Juli and Jason Montgomery-Riess. They raised produce on a 70-Acre farm situated in the mixed pine birch forests and lake country of Polk County near St. Croix Falls and Amery, WI. 2020 was their last growing season. As urban beekeepers, having a bee yard outside the city was a good asset, and from 2015-2019 we kept several hives out at Steady Hand Farm.
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We are not expanding our apiaries at this time but feel free to contact Erin at erin@pollinatemn.org, 612.245.6384 for more information.
