Bees Are Food Technology

Bees as a food technology

The food industry loves technology, and for good reason. Technology and innovation helps us make food safer, more stable, more scalable, more nutritious, and more

The Calm Before the Swarm

Dear Friend of the Bee, Pollinator Week is almost here, and this spring I’ve been spending more time than usual with bees. A lot more

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