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 ...

Heidi Herrmann is one of a growing throng of natural beekeepers. She is trustee and co-founder of the Natural Beekeeping Trust, and has been keeping bees for years. Instead of following traditional ...

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 ...

Oh, honey. This ultra-sweet concoction is nature’s candy, a product of hardworking bees. It can be controversial among plant-based eaters, but the reality is we can enjoy this natural sweetener if we ...

Much like the veggie patch out the back and chooks ranging freely in the garden, rooftop or backyard beekeeping is booming. What a lot of people don’t know – even some beekeepers – is that most home ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

LEWISBURG, W.Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective (ABC) has launched ABCHoney.org to sell the raw natural honey its more than 100 partner beekeepers have harvested from hundreds ...

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