Workers displaced by the decline of coal-mining communities in West Virginia are now earning extra cash from an environmental restoration project that trains people to beekeepers.

According to NPR News, the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective, which is operated by the nonprofit Appalachian Headwaters, is offering beekeeping training to coal miners who have been displaced throughout the state in addition to low-income residents.

The effort arrives as the state’s mining business has continued to suffer a sharp decline in recent years. Just 53,000 coal mining jobs were reportedly offered to residents last year, which is a significant drop from the 132,000 offered in 1990.