Arkearth
Arkearth is a pollination accelerator for urban farms and community gardens. Overview:
Arkearth is a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation focused on saving bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, and other pollinators via our unique pollination accelerator projects. Our projects deploy into community gardens, urban farms, schools, universities, corporate campuses, and other locations. Each project is site
06/09/2026
The defunding of federal agri research AND the recent announcement of closing the Beltsville Bee Research Center will have drastic impacts on not just pollinators, but our own food supply. We shared some dire perspectives with TR!LL 😳🐝
What Declining Bee Research Means For Your Diet A major federal bee research site is closing, along with other bee-focused programs due to budget cuts in the USDA.
05/28/2026
With some creativity, you can keep your lawn AND add pollinator habitats and beautiful flowering native plants to your home. Arkearth.org/shop
05/26/2026
Our Book of the Week is this one! The Compact Garden! It's packed with wonderful tips on growing almost anything in a small space!
The Compact Garden | Arkearth Here's a wonderful book on creating a healthy, beautiful garden space ANYWHERE! The Compact Garden instructs you how to turn any small space into a bountiful garden for herbs, fruits, veggies, or simple colorful design. Forget Looksmaxxing, we're Plantmaxxing! Learn about raised beds, vertical farmi...
05/24/2026
Don’t make me take you to bee court! 🐝😜
In early medieval Ireland, bees were so valuable that there were actual laws written just for them.
Known as the Bechbretha, or “bee judgments,” these laws date back to around the 7th and 8th centuries and covered everything from stolen hives to bee attacks and even “nectar theft” by neighboring swarms.
If someone claimed your bees were stealing flowers from their land, the law suggested dusting the bees with flour and following the white trail back to their hive.
Bees were legally treated like livestock because honey, wax, and mead were essential to daily life in medieval Ireland. In some cases, compensation for injuries or disputes was literally paid in beehives.
What makes it even more fascinating is that Irish records from over 1,000 years ago mention mass bee die-offs linked to famine and human suffering, showing people already understood how important pollinators were long before modern science confirmed it.
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