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Welcome to
Windy City Pollen
Your Local Chicago Beekeepers
We're creating healthier urban communities with the power of pollinators and bringing nature back into Chicago with nature-based solutions. We offer beehive and pollinator habitat programs for organizations. From corporate sustainability to employee engagement to guest experience, we've got your back.
Working with the Best
How Windy City Pollen Gets You Started
Industry-focused Beekeeping Programs
We offer our nature-based solutions to any company with a Chicago presence looking to make a difference and engage their guests, clients, and employees with the fascinating world of pollinators.
Corporations
We install and maintain pollinator habitats for companies with Chicago offices looking to strengthen their corporate sustainability programs and boost employee engagement. Our turnkey beekeeping services include two annual events with a honey-harvesting experience where employees can bottle fresh local honey. It’s an easy, fun, high-impact way to support biodiversity, your ESG initiatives and bring teams back together in the office.
Hospitality
We provide fully managed pollinator habitats for Chicago hotels and restaurants that want to enhance guest experience and highlight their commitment to sustainability. Our beekeeping program includes two yearly events—featuring hands-on honey processing—where guests or staff can participate and take home fresh Chicago honey. It’s a unique, eco-friendly amenity that differentiates your property and attracts sustainability-minded travelers and patrons.
What We Do For You
Our Managed Beekeeping Services
Our Vision
By foraging plant matter, pollinators tell us a lot about environmental health. We can measure air quality, environmental accumulation of pesticides, herbicides, and maybe even heavy metals. Each pollinator home cluster added to our network contributes to our heat map.
Our goal is to make a data-enriched map publicly available for any NGOs or municipal organizations looking to make a difference in people's lives.
Focusing on Chicago's Urban Ecosystem
About
Windy City Pollen
Ben and John bring nature back into Chicago one pollinator home at a time.
It started as two beehives on a Wrigleyville rooftop. The bees brought us respite from a hurried city-life. We decided to pay it forward and bring the magic of bees to others.
Our mission is to educate people on the linkage between bees and food, provide surplus honey and honeycomb to select restaurants and hotels and help companies meaningfully engage their employees and meet their environmental sustainability commitments. We take a hands-on approach to education, teaching people about how bees live, work and produce honey.
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Ben
Pollinator Plant Grow Guide
Wondering which native flowers you should plant in your yard?
We got you covered.
Our free guide tells you which plants are native, when they bloom, and how much shade and sun they can tolerate.