Hives for Humanity (Hives) is a nonprofit society that creates opportunities for connection to community, through nature, bees and the culture of the hive. We foster self-worth and community pride through skills sharing and experiential learning, working with socially and economically vulnerable populations facing barriers to stability.

We are working, gardening, beekeeping and fostering connection to land and community, on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil- Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples. We work to be accountable to these lands, to build reciprocal and respectful relationship, and to make commitments to actions that decolonise our society, lives, hearts and minds.

Our vision is of social and ecological networks that are sustainable and inclusive.

We work holding central the values of:

Witnessing Change: we work within our body-limits, resist burn-out and center community-care, capacity-building and decolonial-practice.

Deep Listening: we build the worlds we wish to inhabit, learning from Mia Mingus’s work at SOIL Transformative Justice Project along with other relational models - centering ongoing consent in relationships for all roles and resources.

Eating with the Ecosystem: we explore balance - designing and planning the Seasonal Feasts through feedback gathered at advisory meetings and community engagements. we use and share the medicines we carry – release/compost that which is no longer of use.

Room To Grow: we practice ways of being in relationships that resist extractive and transactional models. We open conversations as we tend the land, considering plant relations - we share process and prioritising accessibility - through eco-arts practice