Did you know that Portland has a bee swarm hotline? Neither did I! Portland Urban Beekeepers is an organization that "provides co...

There's a heavy, somewhat astringent perfume that wafts through Portland's neighborhoods in early summer. Emanating from the casc...

First chickens, then goats. Now being into bees is the latest preoccupation among urban agriculturists in this most ag-obsessed city. In ...

The other day I was invited to tag along as my neighbor, Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Program Director of The Xerces Society , inspected the h...