Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your garden and ...

EAST LANSING — Some of the easy ways to help the environment are delightfully lazy: Don't rake your yard in the fall and don't mow your lawn in May. Don't let the late April snow interruptions fool ...

While it is true that dandelions are helpful to bees in the earlier months of spring, there are other pollinating plants that are more nutritionally beneficial to the insects. In essence, bees don't ...

We need these little insects like butterflies and bees to fertilise our crops. However, our precious pollinators have been in decline due to habitat loss and pesticide use. But as gardeners we are in ...

So far, this dry spring is turning out to be a mixed blessing. On one hand, the dry, warm weather is allowing gardeners to get an early head start on their gardens. It’s so early in fact, gardeners ...

As spring sets in across Michigan, bees will be buzzing as warm, sunny days bring the return of these pollinators. Here's a look at some common bee species in Michigan. Some nest in the ground, some ...

Here in the Hood River Valley in northern Oregon, and all throughout the prime Pacific Northwest cherry-growing regions, the cool spring weather has often kept the bees — billions of which are brought ...

September has its share of silly holidays, such as International Talk Like a Pirate Day and National Butterscotch Pudding Day. While I love pudding, arrr, I think it might be a better idea to ...

ORANGE GROVE, Texas — Michael Leidner is the owner and operator of South Texas Apiaries in Orange Grove, and has been keeping bees for ten years. Prior to February’s Big Freeze, Leidner has about 100 ...

HOOD RIVER, Oregon — Grower Brad Fowler walked into the cherry orchard on yet another May day when the temperatures struggled to climb above 50 degrees and a chill wind swept through the long rows of ...