In recent years, the role of wildflowers in feeding honeybees has been widely misunderstood.
Read MoreThe right flowers, fruit, and vegetables in your garden will attract some of your own bees, as well as welcoming other visitors such as the bumblebee and solitary bee species.
Read MoreDesign choices, plant selections, and maintenance practices can make a huge difference in creating your own healthy ecosystem.
Read MoreHoneybees do not necessarily require the management skills of a learned beekeeper for optimum results. Here are the top 10 reasons to start beekeeping.
Read MoreWhere does the best honey in the world come from? And how is it determined “best?”
Read MoreLearn how to make a bee hotel and why it’s important to support your native solitary bees.
Read MoreRegardless of whether we live a rural lifestyle, an urban one, or something in between, our existence and continuance of the world as we know it is dependent on an ecosystem of small insect pollinators and native pollinator habitat that most people rarely notice.
Read MoreAdd to Favorites Even before we began keeping bees, we tried to garden in such a way as to not harm bees and other pollinators. Now that we are keeping …
Read MoreThere is nothing quite like the sights and sounds of bees buzzing around, gathering pollen and nectar on a warm summer day. Summer and bees just seem to go together; unfortunately, so do summer and pests.
Read MoreAdd to Favorites For most gardeners, fall is the time to bring in the last of the harvest, preserve and store what you’ve harvested, and put the garden to bed …
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