As the growing your own food movement gains momentum, many people are considering keeping bees in their backyard. People who are entertaining this idea have questions about starting this endeavor. One ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

WATERTOWN, Minn. (WCCO) --Minnesota pollinators have it tough right now. The Department of Natural Resources says habitat loss, pesticides and climate change, have contributed to the drastic decline ...

Chickens, schmickens. If you’re a committed locavore, why not keep backyard bees? That’s what David Stover has done in his tiny Museum District garden for the last four years. On a recent balmy ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...

Tove Danovich is a writer in Portland, Ore., and the author of “Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.” For most of the past century, honeybees were ...