Beekeeping is catching on as more and more people engage in hobby farming, with chickens pecking in the yard, vegetables growing in containers and a buzzing hive in the back. Perhaps part of the ...

It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...

Matt Reed is driving through Portland, Ore., with 20,000 bees in the back of his truck. This morning, someone tipped him off to a swarm of wild bees and he set off to catch them. He does this a lot ...

Beekeepers frequently open up their hives to check on them, but doing so adds to their workload, and it stresses out the bees. A team of Dutch entrepreneurs set out to develop an alternative, ...

“Over the past decade, honeybee health has been in serious decline and the situation is getting dire,” says Dustin Betz, the founder of the Green Towers startup launching their latest living design on ...

Kenneth McKenzie always had an interest in bees and pollination, so he decided to take a daylong beginner beekeeping course to learn the basics. The following Monday, McKenzie went to work as usual ...

The Flow Hive is converting more amateurs into backyard beekeepers -- but it’s drawing a buzz of criticism from traditional bee enthusiasts. Desiree DeNunzio is the gift guide editor for CNET's ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Andrew Bauer, who runs Hazel’s Honey in Livingston, got into beekeeping by accident. His neighbor ...