Goal One: Promoting Education
Bee Balanced works to provide cities, towns, and neighborhood associations with information to assist with policy making and landscaping decisions that create healthy environments for local pollinators. Bee Balanced advocates natural and indigenous plantings to make built spaces hospitable for people, pollinators, and the planet.
We provide educational materials for teachers and home-schooled students that emphasize the importance of pollinators and their role in nature.
Goal Two: Habitat Preservation
Most people don’t own huge swaths of land that they can dedicate to pollinator habitat, but every vacant lot, public park, and tiny strip of open ground offers opportunities to feed and shelter pollinators.
Native plants generally require no care after they are established. Simply planting a small space with native wildflowers is a goal that each of us can achieve, and represents a tiny step towards a healthier ecosystem.
Most cities and towns are littered with tiny scraps of land - sometimes smaller than the average living room — that can be purchased for the cost of unpaid taxes. A living room isn’t a lot of land, but it’s enough for a butterfly garden that can add needed green space to an urban environment. It can provide a spacious home for dozens of species of solitary bees, a hummingbird’s nest, or even a bat house.
Bee Balanced attempts to purchase these little plots of abandoned ground and convert them into naturalized green spaces that help moderate temperatures in urban environments, fight the desert heat-island effect created by southwestern desert cities, and provide shelter to the pollinators upon whom the planet depends.
Goal Three: Promoting healthy relationships with pollinators, green spaces, and humanity.
There is extensive research linking physical and mental health to green spaces. Like pollinators, we are an integral part of our local ecosystem. Our individual and collective health is linked not only to our environment, but to our resilience, equanimity, and ability to confront challenges with thoughtful and intentional action.
Bee Balanced supports this human environmental factor by providing resources intended to help individuals attain their personal health goals through mindfulness, productive contemplation, and restorative sleep.
