be., a community meeting space in the Des Moines metro for youth and beyond, will be hosting their first ever environmental club meeting. The first event will be focused on bees and other pollinators! Did you know? Honey bees and native pollinators are essential to our food supply and help to provide one in every three bites of food we eat! However, these important insects are declining at an alarming rate and an overwhelming number of scientific studies link these population declines to pesticide use and large scale conventional agriculture.
Join us for an afternoon of film, conversation and activities. Our feature film is aptly named Keep The Hives Alive. Save the bees, save the world! For this event, we will have a speaker coming from The Iowa Food Foundation to discuss the importance of bees and other pollinators to our food system and how we can help make a difference. After the film we will be making seed-bombs and other items to support our local pollinator population.
Families are welcome at this event. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids 5-12, and kids 5 and under are free! No pre-registration needed.
be. is located in the lower level at The Shops at Roosevelt, 859L 42nd Street, DSM