We are part of a living Earth-Community, diverse in its ways of being and knowing. This community encompasses a multitude of life forms, each possessing unique forms of agency, sentience, intelligence, and communication.
Biomimicry is an integral approach that allows us to harness nature’s time-tested strategies to support thriving populations of local honeybees. By observing and emulating the natural processes and adaptations of wild honeybees, we can develop more effective and sustainable conservation practices. This nature-inspired approach helps us create environments and management techniques that align with the bees’ innate behaviors and needs, fostering resilience and ecological balance.
Biomimicry is an integral approach that allows us to harness nature’s time-tested strategies to support thriving populations of local honeybees. By observing and emulating the natural processes and adaptations of wild honeybees, we can develop more effective and sustainable conservation practices. This nature-inspired approach helps us create environments and management techniques that align with the bees’ innate behaviors and needs, fostering resilience and ecological balance.
The LocApiary Program is a watershed-centric ecological restoration initiative fostering self-sustaining networks of wild, unmanaged honeybee populations within local ecosystems. It aims to conserve locally adapted genetic stock and reduce the spread of pests and pathogens associated with industrial beekeeping.
What fascinates us about the image of a wild honey bee nest in an old oak tree? This course welcomes participants into the community of free-living honeybees and self-willed ecological processes as a new foundation for reframing apiculture. We will explore new thinking in conservation, approaches for climate change adaptation, and learn about innovative practices that promote self sustaining populations of honeybees. We will explore interdependent environments, learn about apian agencies, and will examine novel frameworks for health and core principles of ‘wilding’.
Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems
CSU Chico's Regenerative AgricultureTechnical Assistance Provider
Faculty: Dr. Cindy Prescott
Course Dates:
Four weeks, Spring 2025 Dates: April 8-May 2,
Live Online
Discussions: Fridays 12pm - 1pm PS
From Heart & Soil:
Do you make compost?
Composting is one of the most valuable skills you can have if you want to grow nutrient dense healthy crops, control disease, minimize pests, and have rich living soil.
Join us March 18 for Composting Workshop where you can learn to transform your "waste" into power-packed nourishment for your soil and plants.
Heart & Soil Member Workshop
Know Your Soil
Join us March 26 for Know Your Soil Workshop and discover a variety of ways to know your soil, from using your senses to lab testing.
Healthy soil helps you.
Understanding your soil and its core organisms will help you improve the health of your crops, increase your harvest, reduce the need for irrigation, and suppress pests and weeds.
Healthy soil has a certain smell, crumbles just the right way, and has a bit of a sponge to it.
Regenerative Agriculture Network Virtual Gathering: Communicating Impacts on Regenerative Agriculture
March 19, 1:30 - 3 p.m.
