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 ...

What started as a niche class for Central Texas hobbyists has grown into a statewide movement to support and educate a new generation of beekeepers. With backyard hives on the rise and a growing need ...

With wild bee populations declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, climate change and disease, more people are taking up backyard beekeeping to help pollinators survive. From rooftops to rural farms ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Backyard beekeepers play a critical role in maintaining a thriving pollinator population, and two Mississippi State scientists in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, ...

YORK, Pa. — They’re small, essential and in serious trouble. Bees, the unsung heroes of our food system, are disappearing at an alarming rate. As wild populations dwindle worldwide, a growing number ...

This story appears in the August edition of TBY magazine, inserted into the Monday, Aug. 2 edition of the Southeast Missourian. Seventy-eight-year-old John Yallaly first became interested in ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – On a cold January day, while others were bundled up and toasty inside, 55 people went out to learn about how to start beehives in their backyards. While it may seem ...

In Florida, you can keep bees in your backyard. That's a good thing because honey bees are vital to food and wildlife in the state. Despite threats like disease, habitat loss and queen quality issues, ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. - What started with just a few backyard beehives has grown into a buzzing business in Hernando County. Honey Badgers Bee Farm was founded by Derrick Jerome, who first got interested ...

Santa Rosa has released a draft set of rules that would legalize backyard beekeeping, a proposal spurred by a young boy and his family who helped champion residents’ rights to raise bees in the city.