honey bees Archives - Marketplace

Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!

Organic farming near hives can help bees, study says

by John Laurenson

Oct 18, 2019

Scientists in France may have found a means of averting bee colony collapse.

Wolfgang Kumm/AFP/Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

My Economy

From the cubicle to the beehives

by Marketplace Staff

Oct 30, 2018

When she left her office job, she didn't know what her business would look like. But it had to involve bees.

“I was at the office job 40 hours a week,” says Hilary Kearney, founder of Girl Next Door Honey. “And then on my lunch break, I was doing things like catching swarms, just really cramming in bees into all the little cracks of time that I had left over.”

Tosca Rodigonda. Courtesy of Hilary Kearney.

LISTEN

EMBED

My Economy

From the cubicle to the beehives

by Marketplace Staff

Oct 30, 2018

When she left her office job, she didn't know what her business would look like. But it had to involve bees.

“I was at the office job 40 hours a week,” says Hilary Kearney, founder of Girl Next Door Honey. “And then on my lunch break, I was doing things like catching swarms, just really cramming in bees into all the little cracks of time that I had left over.”

Tosca Rodigonda. Courtesy of Hilary Kearney.

LISTEN

EMBED