Take a step outside your comfort zone and connect with other beekeepers at your local bee club. Here are some of the ways you’ll improve.

If you live in an area with harsh winters, follow these common-sense guidelines to keep your chickens safe from frostbite.

The egg is pretty much a perfect food, good for the body and versatile in the kitchen. Getting inside the shell of chickens’ daily offering reveals why.

The queen bee personifies strength, endurance, perseverance and harmony, making her a respectable guiding force of the hive.

In the third part of this series, we continue alphabetically through chicken ailments, covering feathers, fleas, flies, frostbite, housing and injury.

These tree-nesting bees and the honey they produce were considered sacred in ancient Mayan cultures.

This less glamorous side of beekeeping is sometimes the most important. Fall is a good time for cleaning clothing, equipment and supers.

If you observe these simple techniques for honey storage, you might never find yourself without a jar of the sweet stuff.

What and how to feed chickens varies with a bird’s age, the season and type of chicken. Here are basic items to consider for your flock’s feeding system.

In many parts of the U.S., you still have time to grow buckwheat, a wonderful crop to benefit your garden, yourself and your bees.