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Virginia is giving away beehives to help promote pollinators

Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on September 8, 2025

Credit: Keith Tignor / Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

If you’ve been thinking of getting bees to help your garden or to produce honey, you can apply for a free beehive. As Roxy Todd reports, Virginia agriculture officials offer the hives as a way to help support declining bee populations.

Applications are due September 10th. You can find more information here.

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The Buzz at Black Bear Farm

Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on October 7, 2024

Beekeeper Chuck Burden with Mountain House Apiaries tends 200 hives in the Shenandoah Valley and this one in Buckingham County. (Credit: Dominion Energy)

Last week was a slow time for solar energy in the Commonwealth, but some arrays have found ways to be productive, even on cloudy, rainy days. Sandy Hausman has that story.