Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! It is hard to believe but August is here. Next thing the kids will be back to school. It has been a hot and wet July, but hopefully things will dry up some ...

A garden can transform from quiet and still into a buzzing, fluttering ecosystem with just a few intentional changes. Bees ...

This year, as every year, when the ground began to warm, I rushed to my seed box to begin planting pollinator-friendly plants. Zinnias, marigolds, cosmos, and borage are among my usual contenders.

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) estimated in 2019 that 1 million out of 8 million species are ...

If you love to set-it-and-forget-it, perennial blooms are the way to go. This low-maintenance plant will keep your garden ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Volunteers working on a pollinator garden in Charlotte at the corner of Philo Road and Spear Street in May 2023. Photo courtesy Julie Parker-Dickinson Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News ...

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers looking at plant-pollinator interactions—here’s what I learned Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower.

CLEMSON — Merle Shepard is working on a honey of an idea. The Clemson insect expert wants to use flower power to attract more bees to farm fields to fertilize crops. The plan is to plant wildflowers ...

FORT SILL, Oklahoma — Tucked away within the Fort Sill Natural Resources compound, something small but mighty is taking root—one milkweed sprout, one butterfly wingbeat and one bloom at a time. A ...

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...