On a warm day in the spring, when you look at a bright flower and see a bee dancing around on the inside of the plant, that creature is likely just making a stop on a long journey before it returns to ...

Houses were floating down rivers in videos on John Pledger’s phone as Helene moved through the North Carolina mountains. He watched at his home in Asheboro and wondered how he could help. “Then I saw ...

Jessy O'Keefe runs Seaside Honeybees, a business that installs and manages beehives for clients in Wilmington, NC. Many people are renting beehives to help pollinate their gardens and the surrounding ...

Todd Swanson, who leads the Ashe County Beekeepers Association, talks about efforts to save honeybees in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene's devastation. Todd Swanson, who leads the Ashe ...

When farmer Kamal Bell first established a beekeeping operation at Sankofa Farms in North Carolina, his son Akeem was four years old and scared of bees. But with his father’s coaching—and the help of ...

SPRUCE PINE – The Toe Cane Beekeepers Association (TCBA) has started construction on an open-air, covered pavilion at its Educational Apiary on the campus of Mayland Community College (MCC) in Spruce ...

John Pledger, a beekeeper from Asheboro who runs a beekeeping supply company, is building and donating hives to people in Western North Carolina who lost their hives to Helene’s flooding. Courtesy ...