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 management questions, collect rigorous field data, and translate findings for agricultural and public audiences. We've documented 100+ native bee species including 37 threatened or vulnerable species, demonstrating that well-managed working lands can serve as pollinator refugia.

Current programs span 54,000+ acres: Bison & Bee Habitat Project (USDA-ARS partnership studying grazing impacts), Bee Friendly Vineyards (12-year regenerative viticulture collaboration), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem research (ranches valuing wildlife coexistence), and Bee Habitat in Cyanotype (art-based science communication). Education reach: 89,500+ adults and 16,000 youth since founding.

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 expanded out of the hive and into a field full of a number of worker bees supporting our mission and our vision. That’s why we created the co-brand, Bee Regenerative.

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 has her chasing bees from the Coast Mountains of Oregon, through the Great Basin, to Montana's Paradise Valley, and into the Great Plains.

Sarah is a graduate of the University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation and the Davidson Honors College with a degree in Resource Conservation, focused on community collaboration and environmental policy. To see her commitment to good policy and education realized, she has formerly 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 over 89,500 adults and 16,000 children through more than 200 presentations and workshops across five countries and 29 U.S. states. Her research partnerships with ranchers and vintners span 54,000+ acres across Montana, South Dakota, Oregon, and California, documenting 100+ native bee species—including 37 threatened or vulnerable species—demonstrating that well-managed working lands can serve as critical pollinator refugia.

Sarah's work weaves together rigorous field science, collaborative 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 49,000 views.

When she is not working alongside bees, beekeepers, kids, farmers, ranchers, vineyard managers, and policymakers, Sarah spends her free time as a connoisseur of books, cappuccinos, running trails, and food and wine local to wherever she finds herself.

Contact: sarah (at) beeregenerative (dot) org | www.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