Does your lawn really need a traditional "Fall Feeding"? Or is the fertilizer you need already on your property? If you walk into any big-box hardware store in Pennsylvania right now, you will be greeted by a towering, unavoidable wall of plastic bags. As August edges toward September, the seasonal retail shift is in full swing. The summer patio furniture has been pushed aside to make room for pallets of "Fall Turf Builder," "Winterizing Fertilizer," and synthetic weed-and-f

A bee delicately hovers around vibrant purple flowers, collecting nectar and pollinating the blooms. When the word “pollinator” is mentioned, the immediate image that springs to mind for most people is the ubiquitous honeybee. You may not realize it, but most honeybees we see regularly aren't native to the United States. The most commonly encountered honeybee is the European Honeybee (Apis mellifera). While honeybees are undoubtedly agricultural powerhouses and essential to