Save the Hive at Pine Street Church

Pine Street Church in downtown Boulder is home not only to a warm community of faith but also a number of community arts, non-profit, and 12 Step groups that use the facility. We love to share our space and are dedicated to enriching our community not only with what happens in our building on Sunday mornings, but also through diverse activities throughout the week.

Our building also happens to be home to one community we unfortunately are not able to serve: a hive of honeybees! We have recently discovered a hive above one of our music classrooms that is estimated to have thousands and thousands of bees, and gallons of honey within.

Because we are committed to making our church space safe, it is necessary for us to remove and rescue the hive to a new home so that the singers, actors, community and church members who use the room beneath the hive are not in danger of being stung and the historic building is not subjected to honey dripping through its walls. How do we rescue these bees though?

...That's where you come in!

The cost of bee removal and room repair to move the bees through the ceiling of our music classroom and to a local hive is estimated at $2500. Any funds raised beyond this amount will be used for church and preschool gardening and environment education projects, through which we maintain our Bee Safe Boulder commitment.