
Experience the awesome wonder of the honey bee
We're creating a happier, healthier planet – one bee & one student at a time!
Message UsCheck out our free Hive Alive Curriculum & Ask a Beekeeper Forum

What We Do
We educate K-5 students on the wonder and need to conserve honeybees.
The Sweet Virginia Foundation educates children about honeybees, inspiring them to cherish nature and become environmental stewards, aiming to create a happier, healthier planet, one bee and one student at a time.
Hive Alive!
Sweet Virginia offers teachers an exciting and interactive Hive Alive Curriculum designed to bring to life the magic of honey bees for elementary school students. Teachers can access our lesson plans for FREE on our website.
Ask A Beekeper
Join our online student-beekeeper forum where beekeepers from around the world answer questions from curious elementary school students through quick, home-made videos.
Bee Liner
In the coming year, we will be launching an interactive Virtual Reality honey bee experience in classrooms across the country! We look forward to driving the Bee Liner to your neighborhood soon.

Perhaps the most important thing that we can do to help the honey bees is to teach children to understand the role that honey bees play and to care about them.
Allison Gillespie
Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees Alive in an Urban World
Education Partner
We partnered with the National Geographic Society to produce a two-minute video that demonstrates the importance of honey bees.
At Sweet Virginia Foundation, our mission is to provide in-classroom instruction and host field trips to our honey bee sanctuary delivering a hands-on experience to students of all ages. Check out the video to learn more about these pollinators.
Learn MoreAt Sweet Virginia Foundation, our mission is to provide in-classroom instruction and host field trips to our honey bee sanctuary delivering a hands-on experience to students of all ages. Check out the video to learn more about these pollinators.
Our Partners
We cannot accomplish our mission alone. A big thank you to our educational partners and donors.











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Community Flowers
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
- Iris Murdoch
If you’d like to volunteer on the farm getting sunflowers ready for delivery or help deliver the freshly cut flowers, just give us a buzz.


Join us at the farm for sanctuary days
Bring the kids to visit Sweet Virginia’s Honey Bee Sanctuary. Get a tour of the farm, including the hives, flower fields, and honey production area.
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