Sustainable Living

Urban beekeeping and the law: the law won.

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 ...

Honey is produced in nearly every corner of the world, and a diverse array of vegetation and flora lends distinct flavors, colors, and scents to the golden stuff. Here’s just a sampling of just a few unique variants from across the globe.

A deep dive into what IMDB users found factually inaccurate in 2007’s animated film “Bee Movie.”

He and his wife Martha run the Kraus Honey Company out of Fruitland, Washington, and spend part of every year shipping their bees across the western United States to pollinate almo...

So your olive oil might be skin and pit residue. Your fancy fish could be a low-grade bottom-feeder. You should probably keep an eye on your honey, too.

It’s an entire week devoted to those handsome, majestic, vital-to-our-survival little honey-makers known as the bee.