Backyard beekeeping is growing in popularity in Santa Monica, but Vilma Zenelaj, a fourth generation beekeeper from Albania, was way ahead of the buzz. Zenelaj has been beekeeping for years and ...

Jessy O'Keefe waved the smoker around as she prepared to inspect the hive, one of nearly half-dozen stored in the backyard of the house near Wilmington's Bradley Creek. "It redirects their focus and ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Don Kovach worked for the Air Force for 34 years to make sure aircraft were in the skies. Today, he has a new type of fleet: He cares for millions of honeybees in his own backyard. Kovach ...

In recent years, as urban gardening has become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, backyard beekeeping has gained traction as well. While many people may think of beekeeping as a quirky hobby, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Kids play outside while their moms keep a watchful eye on them, folks wave at their neighbors as they get home from work and the sound of a lawnmower can be heard somewhere in the ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Everyone was doing it. In the early 2000s, Portland cultivated a reputation for urban homesteading by steadily relaxing zoning laws that hindered the raising of ...