Bee Heroine!

Hello Bee Lovers!
This year is set to be a thrilling one for our collective activism.  It is a great honor that after only five years of focused work that I have been included in these spectacular realms on a national and world stage! This mission is alive and I need your support to fly! Be the wind under my wings? Let me work on your behalf, on behalf of future generations and on behalf of the honeybee and other pollinators!

I have modified agenda for funds: I have added $600 for gas money to Standing Rock so that I may bring supplies and prayers. (I have removed other events so that I may prioritize this one)

I am seeking funding for: 
travel expenses,
registration fees for some of these events and
a retainer for an excellent marketing director to help develop and promote my work.  
Links to the events I am seeking to participating in can be found at the end of this post.
Funds Raised are earmarked thusly

Standing Rock:
$600 gas money for roundtrip to deliver goods and prayers to the community there  in time for the potential shut-down on Dec 5.


Arizona Beekeeping Conference:
$500 airfare, $100 travel, $250 registration fees

Irresistible Retreats:
$500 to retain marketing person that can help direct my work, market and organize the upcoming Bee Mystic retreats and support my big jump into the next level!

Items below are COVERED/ THANK YOU!!!
Bee Audacious:
$300 hotel/registration fees $350 airfare, $100 travel expenses 

Bee Mystic Utah: Prep workshop: seeking airfare ($550) from Bee Audacious to meet large team to develop workshop for inspiration and team building.
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Many of these events have portions that are covered but the travel and additional expenses are beyond what this humble beekeeper can afford.
I am seeking funds to support my continued work especially my 2017 goals of
*completing a Sacred Beekeeper's workbook,
*presenting a week-long workshop at Findhorn, UK 
*Apimondia (Istanbul, Turkey) (goal= to be a speaker!)
*creating several Bee Mystic Retreats (Hawaii, Asheville NC) and
*working on a documentary film with Visionary Organics
*Advising and developing Pacifica Pollinator Project which is working to transform a 540 acre land conservancy into an organic pollinator habitat and includes a travelling schoolbus to teach rural children about pollinators.
IMPORTANTLY: I have been invited to present at several conferences including
*Arizona Organic Beekeeping Conference 
*Bee Audacious I have also been included as a participant in a revolutionary invitational conference with brilliant Bee Notables to develop a rich dialogue on the future of beekeeping.  Finally, ETHICS!  It will be absolutely amazing to bring the concepts of animal communication and history into this conversation.  I will be rubbing elbows with some of my absolute heros which will help elevate my program and inform my work.

I am also certain that this will not be the sum total  of my opportunities in the coming year!

It has been an honor and a joy to be following my heart vision and I thank each and everyone of you for making it possible to be an advocate for nature and the honeybee!
With great love I offer myself in service to the future of our planet and the revolution necessary to create lasting change.
Thank you 60,000 times over,
Laura Bee Ferguson
Driector, college of the Melissae

Here are some links to give you information on who I will be working with and what I am currently doing (including a trailer for our documentary):

Laura Bee's Linked In Resume
www.collegeofthemelissae.com
Bee Audacious Invitational Conference
Documentary Film Trailer with Visionary Organics
Findhorn, UK Sacred Bee Symposium
Arizona Organic Beekeeping Conference
Pacifica: Garden in the Siskiyous