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You can tell that Spring has sprung and Summer is on us when the Honey Festival and Farmers Market arrive. The Honey Festival this year is set for Saturday, May 3, while the Woodland Farmers Market ...

Someone snuck onto a Virginia bee farm in the dead of night, locked the gates behind them with heavy-duty chains, and ...

As flowers begin to bloom and the weather warms, honey bee colonies are breaking off and searching for new places to colonize ...

For our food systems, the rise of the honey bee has been an unqualified success. For our ecosystems, though, there is plenty ...

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, ...

Steve Garwood has secured a new home for Ragged Hill Cider Company, the small cidery he runs with his daughter, Anne, on a 12-acre section of the roughly 200-acre Honey Bee Orchards. Ragged Hill ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

Millions of bees were found dead at Rock Hill Honey Bee Farms in a suspected intentional poisoning, the beekeeper said. Screengrab from Rock Hill Honey Bee Farms Facebook post Millions of dead ...