Here's why I never miss going to galleries or museums when I'm in the middle of nowhere: the compositions of nature, the element of ...

Thumbing through Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee tonight, I came upon this lovely bit of unabashedly enthused nature prose, a...

Highly recommended: Elizabeth Kolbert's great piece in this week's New Yorker about honeybees, beekeeping and colony collapse disord...

Some wasps—or are they hornets? I'm still not clear on the difference—have set up shop on the porch, and it's been fun watching thei...

Borage flowers look like little stars cut by a child from the midday sky. I planted borage in our new herb bed to receive the medicinal prop...

Not my bees, but some bees coming and going in Montana.

Just trust me.

Last week, during a "check in" on Rebel Rebel, I was fortunate enough to see (and hear!) the queen. Below, you can see some of the...

I guess video isn't really live, but these days it's pretty close. I was so blown away by seeing my first swarm (nearly a month ago ...

I’m glad I asked the farmer’s son not to cut the humble stand of milkweed along the barbed wire fence. Twice a summer, the local dairy farme...