David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Plants that attract bees are necessary for a thriving ecosystem. Here's the trees, shrubs and flowers pollinators prefer most. I had the opportunity to evaluate a university campus recently for ...

Whether you're gardening in a window box, on a balcony or in a compact backyard, attracting bees to your outdoor space really helps the eco system as well as your own garden. By growing the best ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

Unless they show up as car-sized beasts devouring people and property, insects seldom surface as the topic of conversation around the coffee pot. However, the plight of honeybees is now a part of our ...

That clover and dandelion in the lawn may no longer be the hallmark of a lethargic lawn-owner. It may signal instead that you’re a trendy pollinator-helper. The latest buzz in the movement to aid ...

Bee populations are in decline, and Cheerios wants to help. So far, so good. But they are sending free packets of wildflower seeds to people all over the country—and some of the flowers included are ...

DELAVAN – Hidden away in a neighborhood near Delavan Lake is a garden. A human would see it as only a garden, albeit a rather large one. To a bee, the riot of flowers is a pollinator’s paradise.