One of my favorite flower-garden ornaments was a bee skep. Skeps were the first kind of container for honeybees to occupy and make honey. The only kinds of homes for the bees to now occupy are square ...

Honey has a history going back to 2100 B.C. It is mentioned in some Babylonian writings. It was used for sweetening food, for medicine, for religious ceremonies and even as a form of money. In the ...

Although I've seen pictures of the cone-shaped baskets for years — usually with a bee buzzing about — I never knew what they were. Then Diana Hankins, of Port Byron, sent in a photo a couple of weeks ...