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We’re a family tree farm on a hilltop in the Ozark Mountains, right outside Springfield, Missouri. We manage native trees, orchards, gardens and native plant beds. Pollinators are critical to our success and we developed BeeFoster for our own use. It turns out everyone has the same problem: the pollinators are dying and that’s a catastrophe in the making. On our Rockspan Farm website, you’ll see how we’re working to restore degraded soils and restore riparian corridors that run alongside our section of the spring-fed Sac River. We’re putting in large pollinator plots, restoring old farm ponds, establishing Silviculture stands and using bio-char to restore soils without over-fertilizing. We’re planting large stands of native bald cypress which have lifespans of up to 1800 years. So, we’re in this for the long haul and we hope you are too.
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Here's the front gate to our Ozarks Mountain farm. Ames & her puppy Bingo are mounting a new Beestra!
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BeeFoster has been featured in...
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Father-daughter team Dan and Ames
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Here we are with our award-winning prototype! We made some changes after doing lots and lots of field research.
Beestras are made in our mysterious Building 137. Ames works up our raised bed gardens nearby.
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BeeFoster is a family business and you can see John & Mary helping Ames set up a production line.
Mysterious Building 137 is also where we build our many wood projects.
We work closely with SMC, a great local corrugated company to build the Beestra case we designed. Also note our talented graphic artist: Corey Robb!
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Beestras are made by hand with love by Ames and friends.
We like the United States Post Office and they'll be delivering your new Beestra.
Every Spring we clean parasites from all our 40 bluebird houses. Parasites are bad for birds too!
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