Twin Cities Campus

The Landscape Arboretum received a $2,000,000 gift to design, build and endow a Bee Discovery and Pollinator Center. The new facility was planned for the Red Barn area on the east side of the Arboretum, and has connected U of M Honeybee Research with a public educational space.The goal of the Bee Discovery and Pollinator Garden was to create a public education facility that provides informal and formal year-round learning opportunities for children and adults about the lives of bees, their agricultural and ecological importance as pollinators, and the essential, fascinating and delicious ways our human lives intersect with theirs.The Discovery center functions like a bee hive, efficiently combining research and educational space to improve bee health and biodiversity and to showcase the importance of bees to agriculture and to human nutrition, health and food safety