“We started the Natural Beekeeping Conference as an alternative to the traditional beekeeping conferences put on for commercial beekeepers,” Chelsea tells Modern Farmer in an email. “There isn’t ...

Honeybees are important pollinators of many flowering plants. The best time to start a new hive is in the spring. When you’re ready to start beekeeping, you can purchase the bees by mail order. These ...

To think of beekeeping is usually to think of big white suits, lots of smoke, threatening swarms… and pots of delicious homemade honey. But the drastic decline in bee populations, linked to colony ...

Beekeeping is usually about making honey but there is another way of operating with a different goal in mind. Bee sanctuaries are rare and have been described by one operator as "a place that can ...

There’s going to be more to my Superbowl Sunday than making seven layer dip, because before I turn on the game I plan on spending the day at William Penn Charter School, listening to the author of my ...

The growing supports our honey-making friends in the kindest, most bee-centric ways, writes Rita de Brún. Honeybees are wild, sociable, sensitive creatures. They soar in majestic swarms, mate on the ...

The honeybee is becoming an endangered species, with the finger of blame pointing in multiple directions. Wild honeybees are nearly extinct in the UK and from 1985-2005 there was a 53 per cent decline ...

I’ve had a terrible time with mites in my beehives this year and not just varroa but tracheal mites as well. I do not use medications or chemicals in my beehives at all so I searched far and wide for ...