Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and our favorite local bee Expert, Stephen Anderson, to learn about a year in the life of mason bees, and receive a pre built to host and harvest them on your property. 

Participants will receive instruction and all materials to bee successful, and will take home group of slumbering mason bee cocoons (so cool!).

Where: Parkrose Community Orchard, inside of the Adjacent Church at 12505 NE Halsey

When: March 7th, 12:30pm to 2:30pm

What: Host your own mason bee habitat! 20 cocoons, PVC house, and nesting tubes provided for each full price ticketholder (up to 2 participants per full price ticket) to take home.

Cost is $50 per each party of up to 2 people (please register your second person by grabbing a free ticket so we have a headcount, all ages welcome)! Additional tickets so that a whole family or household can join and share a bee house are $10 for each ticket, and do not include a bee house. You are welcome to buy this ticket as an individual to simple sit in on the class portion, and augment your own knowledge without taking home a bee house.

Email us if you need assistance with fees, we do want everyone to be able to join us.

We have play space if younger kids need a break and we will tour the orchard, weather permitting.

About Mason Bees: Solitary bees (Mason bees are but one variety!) are quickly becoming the "new-bee" to host in your yard. One of Mother Nature’s best pollinators, they’re gentle, easy to care for, and critical for food and ecosystems. Unlike the social honeybee, solitary bees live and work alone, and they also don’t make honey. They forage for their own food and find their own nests, and all females lay their own eggs. Solitary bees make up the largest percentage of the bee population — out of the more than 20,000 bee species worldwide, around 90 percent are solitary.