250+ Farmers Trained, Many of Them Women: How This Collective Is Reviving Traditional Beekeeping

Tenacious Bee Collective, started in 2018 in Badsar village, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, has trained over 250 farmers—many women—in traditional beekeeping practices while supporting ecological restoration and rural livelihoods in a region where pesticide-heavy agriculture and falling honey prices have pushed beekeepers out of the profession.