Conscious Consumption

Germany is in throes of a local honey revival, and we talk to one woman leading the charge.

Is there anything more terrifying and/or fascinating than a bee swarm? Nope. Let us count the ways.

For our Farmer’s Favorite Mistakes series, we talk to a beekeeper.

Urban beekeeping and the law: the law won.

Bee rustling is on the rise as thieves snatch hives around the globe.

In the early 1940s William George Pope, and his wife Mildred "Moodie” Pope, left Utica, NY and bought a farm. They named it High Acres, and started raising Ayeshire Cattle. Pope ...

For centuries, beekeepers have used “skeps,” carefully designed domed baskets, to house their hives. Learn how to make one.

A look at some potential stressors and pathogens behind colony collapse disorder.

On a warm April afternoon in Oakdale - a small farming town in the San Joaquin Valley of California - beekeepers Steve Ellis (pictured above, with his hives) and Jeff Anderson ...