Todd Fitchette Protecting and promoting managed honeybees and other pollinators in California is the object of a new coalition between various agriculture, government, and non-governmental organizations. The groups aim to provide habitat and forage for pollinators and beneficial insects across California's agricultural landscape. A coalition of agriculture, natural resource organizations and conservation groups announced a partnership to boost pollinator habitat on farms and elsewhere across California. While the goal implies efforts to benefit the bees used to pollinate the state's almond crop, there are other benefits said to be borne from the effort. The newly formed coalition between the Pollinator Partnership and a host of groups, including the Almond Board of California and California Department of Food and Agriculture, aims to provide habitat and forage for pollinators and beneficial insects across the state's agricultural landscape. Common practices in almonds include planting hedge rows and cover crops that provide a mix of flowers and forage for managed and native bees necessary to pollinate the state's 1.5 million acres of almonds.