The Drive That Feeds America

I-5 and Almond fields lined with beehives

I left Eugene in early March before sunrise on my way to Anaheim, California and the 2026 Natural Products Food Expo, or Expo West.  It

When Bees Have Rights, We All Do

Photo credit: Satipo and Nauta municipalities are the first in Peru to grant legal rights to stingless bees. Photograph: Miryan Delgado/Handout.

Something just happened in the Amazon for the first time. Stingless bees became the first insects on Earth granted legal rights. Not symbolic ones. Real