Media Kit for Founder, Sarah Red-Laird

About Bee Regenerative

Bee Regenerative's mission is to inspire and advance bee conservation on agricultural landscapes.

We Value Conservation, Regeneration, Complexity, Resilience, and Affection.

Bee Regenerative advances pollinator conservation through applied research partnerships on working ranches and vineyards across Montana, South Dakota, Oregon, and California. Founded in 2010 as Bee Girl Organization and rebranded in 2024, we are a women-led nonprofit bridging ecological science and agricultural practice.

Our approach: build trust with producers over years, co-design research addressing their specific management questions, collect rigorous field data, and translate findings for agricultural and public audiences. To date, we've documented 134 native bee species — including 37 that are threatened or vulnerable — demonstrating that well-managed working lands can serve as critical pollinator refugia.

Current programs span 77,000+ acres and include the Bison & Bee Habitat Project (a USDA-ARS partnership studying the impacts of grazing on pollinator communities), Bee Friendly Vineyards (a 12-year regenerative viticulture collaboration), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem research (with ranches committed to wildlife coexistence), and Bee Habitat in Cyanotype (art-based science communication). Since founding, we've reached more than 89,500 adults and 16,000 youth through education and outreach.

What About Bee girl?

Bee Girl — doing business as Bee Regenerative — remains a vibrant and essential part of our brand. While our founder, Sarah Red-Laird (aka the Bee Girl), is still the lead worker bee, this work has grown beyond the hive into a field full of dedicated collaborators supporting our mission. That's why we created the Bee Regenerative co-brand.

Sarah Red-Laird Bio

Founder & Executive Program Director, Bee Regenerative

Sarah Red-Laird is the founder and Executive Program Director of Bee Regenerative (d/b/a Bee Girl Organization), whose mission is to inspire and advance bee conservation on agricultural landscapes. Her work currently takes her from the Coast Mountains of Oregon through the Great Basin, into Montana's Paradise Valley, and across the Great Plains.

A graduate of the University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation and the Davidson Honors College with a degree in Resource Conservation, Sarah has built her career at the intersection of ecological science, agricultural practice, and community collaboration. She has served as director of the American Beekeeping Federation's Kids and Bees program, as president of the Northwest Farmers Union and Western Apicultural Society, and as a board member of the National Farmers Union.

Since founding Bee Regenerative in 2010, Sarah has reached more than 89,500 adults and 16,000 children through over 200 presentations and workshops across five countries and 29 U.S. states. Her research partnerships with ranchers and vintners now span 77,000+ acres across Montana, South Dakota, Oregon, and California, documenting 100+ native bee species — including 37 that are threatened or vulnerable — and making the case that well-managed working lands are among our most important pollinator refugia.

Sarah's work weaves together rigorous field science, trust-based partnerships with agricultural producers, and compelling science communication through art, storytelling, and community engagement. Her Bee Habitat in Cyanotype project has been exhibited in five galleries, and her TEDx talk, "We Can Save the Bees, Together," has garnered more than 49,000 views.

When she's not working alongside bees, ranchers, vintners, and the occasional bison, Sarah can be found running trails, reading, and sampling the local food and wine wherever her campervan laboratory takes her next.

Contact: sarah (at) beeregenerative.org | beeregenerative.org | Instagram & Facebook: @sarahbeegirl | @beeregenerative

 

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Notable Events

  • Hollow Tree Honey Foundation // Keynote Speaker, April 2023

  • World Bee Day // Featured Speaker, May 2022

  • Regenerate Canada Workshop Series // Featured Speaker May, 2022

  • Northeast Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma // Featured Speaker March, 2022

  • Wild Survivors / Kids and Bees workshop, Tanzania, Africa // Workshop leader, October, 2021

  • Louisiana Women in Ag Conference // Featured Speaker, March 2020

  • British Columbia Honey Producers Association, Prince George, BC, Canada // Featured Speaker, October, 2019

  • White Buffalo Land Trust Impact Hub, Santa Barbara, CA // Featured Speaker, October, 2019

  • Western Apicultural Society Conference, Ashland, OR // Conference Organizer, Workshop Leader, and Keynote Speaker, July 2019

  • Humboldt State Beekeepers Assn Bee Fest, Eureka, CA // Keynote Speaker and Kids and Bees Workshop Leader, May 2019

  • Pacific Northwest Beekeeping Conference, Eastern Washington University // Keynote Speaker and Kids and Bees Workshop Leader, February 2019

  • American Beekeeping Federation Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC // Speaker and Kids and Bees Workshop Leader, January 2019

  • Western Apicultural Society Conference, Boise, ID // Featured Speaker, August 2018

  • Wyoming Bee College, Cheyenne, WY // Keynote Speaker, March 2018 

  • Montana Farmers Union Youth Camp // Kids and Bees Leader, July 2018