Kristina Mercedes Urquhart

To best interact with your bees, wear something that’s comfortable while also calming to bees. Here are tips on clothing and other preparation.

Preparation for a hive move happens in two stages: getting the beekeepers and equipment ready, and getting the hive ready.

Getting your birds off to a healthy start sets the stage for how they’ll lay for years to come. In the first of three parts, we tell you how to establish great laying hens.

Happy, healthy honeybees of good “survivor stock” are crucial to a new hive’s success. Here’s how to find the best breeders when buying bees.

In part four of this series, we continue alphabetically through chicken ailments, covering keel cyst, kinky back, Marek’s and Newcastle diseases, and nutritional disorders.

Honey is incredible, delicious and fascinating, and it relies on hard work—both from the tireless bees and their human stewards.

Bees have precise requirements for their hives, and there is no room for error. New beekeepers should not put their colonies at risk.

Communication that’s effective, efficient — and, to us humans, unusual — is the cornerstone to the fully functioning superorganism that is a hive of honeybees.

If this has been your first year beekeeping, many exciting things await. If you’re an experienced beekeeper, winter is a time to look ahead.

Treat the beekeeper in your life to something sweet this season. Here are some gift ideas, most of them practical but some humorous.