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Many of us who live off the grid have learned the benefits of organic gardening. We’ve rejected the destructive trend of the last 70 years, where the idea seemed to be one of destruction. The goal was eradication: pesticides for ...

Honeybees in Australia are about to be outfitted with tiny sensors so their movements can be monitored. Researchers are hoping the technique, known as “swarm sensing,” will shed light onto the colony collapse disorder problem and help discover how the ...

Honeybees may get some much-needed help courtesy of a new protection plan under way in a western state – the first such colony collapse disorder program in the nation. North Dakota, which has been among the leaders in honey production ...

European scientists say they have discovered the problem behind the declining honeybee population, and pesticides seem to be the culprit. The study by the journal Ecology Letters states that “extended periods of stress” can cause the failure of a bee ...

You may already know that honey has a long history of use for healing. Perhaps you were given honey as a child when you had a cough or sore throat. Over the past couple of years, mainstream health practitioners have ...

As homesteaders and peppers, we tend to think that we wrote the book on preparedness and self-sufficiency. The simple truth of the matter is that the real book on preparedness was written by the humblest of God’s creatures, the insect. ...

Pesticide warning labels to help save the bees finally have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. While the EPA has taken a small step in the right direction, it may not be enough to save the drastically shrinking honeybee ...

The European Union (EU) has passed a two-year “precautionary” ban on bee-killing chemical pesticides. The neonicotinoids ban is slated to begin on Dec. 1. The decision by the European Commission – the executive body of the EU — mirrors similar ...

Honeybees suffered another horrific loss this week; 37 million bees were found dead in Canada. The massive honeybee death comes just two weeks after 25,000 dead honeybees were found in an Oregon parking lot. Ontario beekeeper Dave Schuit suffered massive ...

Monsanto held a Bee Health Summit to “introduce” the company to beekeepers. Those who have been fighting cold brood and a loss of queens to Roundup Ready crops and other chemical pesticides are well aware of who Monsanto is and ...