ALL OF MARIN COUNTY’S OPEN LAND, all those cows and grasses, and there is no nectar. Even the best conservation efforts don’t provide enough healthy forage for honey bees, according to a West Marin mead maker.

At Heidrun Meadery in Point Reyes Station, there is a concerted effort to cultivate honey bees through increasing biodiversity. Heidrun produces sparkling mead from a variety of honeys using traditional methods similar to those used to make French Champagne.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.