The Bud Watch Party continues with The Pollinators. Watch for free from home, then join your community for a conversation about food security, sustainability and the power of the honey bee.

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Our complex food system rests on the wings of the honey bee and the commercial beekeepers that move them from farm to orchard to pollinate the crops that produce the food we eat. The Pollinators is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. We talk to farmers, scientists, chefs and academics along the way to give a broad perspective about the threats to honey bees, what it means to our food security and how we can improve it.