Field and Garden: Beekeeper uses grant to boost honey industry

Highly productive. Disease resistant. Cold tolerant.

This may sound like a description of a new corn variety, but it’s not.

It’s actually a list of desirable traits that Jamestown resident Megan Mahoney hopes to see among our nation’s honey bees.

To achieve her goal, Mahoney is using advanced techniques to produce high quality and genetically consistent queen bees that will be sold to commercial p...