Eleanor Schumacher is a Southern Illinois Pollination Ecologist. She holds two positions with Pollinator Partnership working as Illinois State Coordinator for Project Wingspan and Illinois NRCS Liaison. She also works as an apiary inspector with the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Fascinated by the correlation between pollinator habitat quality and bee health, she pursued studies in Pollination Ecology and received a Master’s Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from University of Illinois in 2018. She worked as Resource Conservationist for the Madison County Soil & Water Conservation District from 2017 through 2019. She has three small prairie restorations of her own and 25 beehives. She and her husband call their farm "The Land of Milk and Honey" because he is a dairy farmer milking 75 cows twice a day.