The Ashland Apiary Project is the title of my graduate thesis work at Southern Oregon University to establish an on-campus apiary that serves as a model of place-based and community-based education for a wide audience of students in an elementary, secondary, and collegiate setting. Equal parts environmental and educational in design and delivery, this project introduces the term of "apiary-based learning" into the field of environmental education. "Apiary-based learning" provides attachment points for the acquisition of new skills and transformational experiences for those who participate. At the core of this project is a multi-pronged, multi-aged learning experience that uses beekeeping as a thematic avenue for dynamic hands-on education and the cultivation of land stewardship. Outcomes of the Ashland Apiary Project include on-campus beekeeping workshops to train new beekeepers while at the same time strengthening the pollination services provided by honeybees to local agriculture and food networks in the Rogue Valley. The presentation will: 1) explain components of the project's sustainability vision; 2) discuss where the project has been and where it is going; and 3) consider beekeeping as pedagogy in the field of environmental education.