Bumble Bank Conservation
A Northwest Meadowscapes Company
Pollinator Conservation – 30-Years of Practice
Our Story
Biodiversity-Based Sourcing
Consumers, retailers, and investors increasingly expect food companies to deliver measurable biodiversity outcomes—not just sustainability commitments. We help companies integrate biodiversity into sourcing programs in ways that create real ecological impact while strengthening supplier relationships and brand value.
Drawing on decades of experience working with growers, food brands, and conservation organizations, we provide strategic guidance for companies seeking to incorporate biodiversity standards into ingredient sourcing and procurement. Whether the goal is regenerative agriculture, pollinator conservation, biodiversity reporting, or certification, we help translate sustainability goals into practical action.
A particular area of focus is Bee Better Certified™ implementation. We can support farm-level adoption of certification requirements, supplier engagement, habitat planning, and the integration of biodiversity standards into existing sourcing programs. We also help companies build the supply-chain infrastructure needed to scale biodiverse sourcing across multiple regions and commodities.
Beyond implementation, we help brands tell compelling stories about their conservation investments. From consumer-facing messaging to stakeholder communications, we help ensure biodiversity initiatives create value both in the field and in the marketplace.
Pollinator Habitat Banking
For companies seeking measurable biodiversity outcomes, habitat banking offers a scalable way to generate long-term ecological value. We develop and manage pollinator-focused habitat banks that restore degraded landscapes into thriving ecosystems rich in native wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and hedgerows.
Our projects emphasize plant species that provide exceptional value to native bees, butterflies, and other at-risk pollinators. The result is habitat that supports biodiversity goals while creating tangible conservation assets that can be tracked, measured, and reported.
Services include habitat planning, restoration implementation, long-term stewardship, invasive species management, ecological monitoring, and impact reporting. We provide the scientific rigor and ongoing management needed to ensure restored habitats continue delivering value for years to come.
The result is more than a restoration project—it is a durable biodiversity investment that demonstrates environmental leadership while producing measurable conservation outcomes.
We create a new wild in spaces where nature has been pushed aside. We deliver biodiversity outcomes that people can see, measure, and celebrate.
Some of the best opportunities for biodiversity restoration exist in places others overlook. We help companies and communities transform underutilized lands into vibrant ecological assets that support pollinators, improve sustainability performance, and create memorable landscapes.
Our work spans agricultural operations, corporate campuses, manufacturing facilities, processing plants, solar energy projects, distribution centers, and commercial properties. Every project is designed around native plant communities that provide exceptional ecological value while remaining practical to manage.
We believe great habitat should also be beautiful. Our designs emphasize bold seasonal color, visual impact, and a strong sense of place—creating landscapes that delight neighbors, employees, visitors, customers, and surrounding communities while accelerating pollinator abundance.
Brownfields, rooftops, vacant lots, industrial sites, utility corridors, neglected urban spaces, “bad” neighborhoods? Yep, that’s where we like to work. With the right vision and expertise, even the most challenging landscapes can become thriving habitat.
Transform Land for Bees and Butterflies
Who We Are
Eric Lee-Mäder, Principal and Founder
Eric Lee-Mäder is a nationally recognized conservation strategist, agricultural ecologist, and business advisor whose work has helped shape modern pollinator and biodiversity initiatives across North American food systems. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has worked at the intersection of agriculture, conservation, and corporate sustainability, helping farms, food brands, retailers, and conservation organizations develop practical solutions that improve ecosystem health while supporting productive agricultural landscapes.
As a former Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Eric led programs focused on pollinator conservation, beneficial insects, habitat restoration, and biodiversity within agricultural supply chains. During the emergence of widespread concern over pollinator declines in the early 2000s, he helped establish many of the habitat design standards, technical guidance documents, and training programs that are now widely used by farmers, conservation professionals, and government agencies throughout the United States. His work contributed to large-scale adoption of conservation practices through partnerships with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), universities, and agricultural stakeholders.
Eric is particularly known for pioneering collaborations between the conservation community and the private sector. He has advised major food companies and consumer brands—including Häagen-Dazs, Starbucks, General Mills brands such as Cascadian Farm, Annie’s, Muir Glen, and Lärabar, Danone’s Silk Almond Milk, and Whole Foods Market—on pollinator conservation, biodiversity strategy, habitat restoration, and market-based sustainability initiatives. His work has helped companies translate environmental commitments into on-the-ground conservation outcomes while strengthening engagement with growers, consumers, and supply-chain partners.
Among his most influential accomplishments was helping develop Bee Better Certified®, a sustainability certification that recognizes farms and food products that protect pollinators through habitat creation and responsible land-management practices. The certification established one of the first market-driven frameworks linking biodiversity conservation directly to agricultural sourcing and consumer-facing food products, providing companies with a credible mechanism for demonstrating measurable conservation impact.
Eric is also an accomplished author and communicator. He is the lead author of several landmark publications, including Attracting Native Pollinators, 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, The Milkweed Lands, and Farming with Native Beneficial Insects, which have become foundational references for conservation practitioners throughout North America. A frequent keynote speaker and media contributor, he has presented at hundreds of industry, conservation, and agricultural events and has been featured by national media outlets including The New York Times, PBS, and Modern Farmer.
In addition to his ongoing pollinator conservation consultancy, Eric Lee-Mäder is a co-founder and principal of Northwest Meadowscapes LLC, a Washington-based native grass and wildflower seed company and ecological consulting firm.