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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — On Monday, Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that communities around Illinois will receive funding for local park projects ...
Bees for Development is an international charity [1] [2] working to alleviate poverty through beekeeping. [3] Beekeeping contributes to supporting sustainable livelihoods [4] in poor and remote communities; honey bees provide an essential ecosystem service. [5] Bees for Development currently runs projects in Uganda, Zanzibar, Ethiopia and ...
Nearly a million bee colonies have been formed in the past five years, according to 2022 Census of Agriculture data from the USDA, boosting the total number of colonies to an all-time high of 3.8 ...
Urban beekeeping is the practice of keeping bee colonies (hives) in towns and cities. It is also referred to as hobby beekeeping or backyard beekeeping. Bees from city apiaries are said to be "healthier and more productive than their country cousins". [2] As pollinators, bees also provide environmental and economic benefits to cities. They are ...
St. Joseph is considering a new beekeeping ordinance. The city would join a nationwide trend of welcoming beekeeping.
Some southern U.S. beekeepers keep bees primarily to raise queens and package bees for sale. Northern beekeepers can buy early spring queens and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out during the winter, although this is becoming less practical due to the spread of the Africanized bee.
With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk. An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier ...
In April 2017, the Franklin Center acquired the non-profit Illinois News Network and its associated assets from the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank led by John Tillman. [27] INN publisher Chris Krug was named President of the Franklin Center and the headquarters moving to Chicago, Illinois. [28] [8] [29]