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Honeybee: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper |  | Author: C. Marina Marchese
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 77975
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 1579128157
Dewey Decimal Number: 638.1092
EAN: 9781579128159
ASIN: 1579128157
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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Product Description
One woman's charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur—plus everything you'd ever want to know about bees.
Ten years ago, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. Surprised to find that allowing docile honeybees to crawl across her hands instilled a serene tranquility and comfort, Marina quit her job, acquired her own bees, built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own business. Today, Red Bee Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related products to shops and restaurants all over the country.
Honeybee is not only a warm and inspiring story of one woman's intimate experience with honeybees (arguably the most industrious creatures on earth) but it is also bursting with fascinating and practical information about all aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey, including life inside the beehive and the role of the queen, drones, and workers; how bees make honey; pollination and its importance in sustaining life; building a beehive; hiving and keeping honeybees; harvesting honey and comb; healing with honey and the practice of apitherapy; and much, much more. Recipes for food, drink, and personal care products are included throughout. Also included is a detailed appendix of 75 different varieties of honey.
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Not just another book about bees! November 13, 2009
Aggy
This was a hugely informative and yet very enjoyable read. The author explains many things in interesting (not tedious or boring) detail in a conversational tone. We join in her journey into beekeeping as she delves into some very fascinating topics associated with the intriguing world of bees and honey. She takes us with her on her travels from the apothecaries of China to the beautiful Amalfi coast for a honey tasting adventure. As if that weren't enough, she finishes the book with a listing of the characteristics and suggested pairings of 75 different varieties of honey - not the stuff you find in the plastic bear bottles on the supermarket shelves! A honey lover's dream come true! This is one book that is worth owning and reading, even if you have no interest in beekeeping at all. It is a fabulously delicious book.
Honeybee! October 22, 2009
Connie Pappas (New York & CT)
The author takes us on a magical journey - shares her experiences; the unfolding...her hesitancy and then choice to learn about bees, become a beekeeper and small business owner. For those interested in healthy living, gourmet food, our environment/the honeybee, beekeeping and more, the book is both informative and inspiring. Types of honey are included - tastings/pairings, recipes, medicinal remedies and more. Honeybee is a delightful read!
Honeybee - A Book of Value October 22, 2009
Victor Mulaire Cricket
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper, is an intriguing and wondrous journey through a spellbinding world created by author, Marina Marchese. Marchese's study of the world of bees offers revelations our human world needs to consider and become privy to. This is not just a book for beekeepers and those who love the taste of honey. It is an in-depth, inviting exploration of an invaluable creature's life which plays an all important, eternal role in the on-going salvation of Earth, Nature and the survival of Humankind! Ms. Marchese has fully crossed the threshold of this fantastic realm by living daily within it. She reveals, interprets and depicts the dynamic presence and respect afforded life's magnificent Queen Bee by multitudes of male subjects. Equally, "Honeybee" makes us well aware of our own need to fully understand, value and protect the life of this small but magnificent lifeform. Marina Marchese's book, "Honeybee" offers us so very much more. It tenders succulent recipes; splendid wine and honey concoctions and blends; and helpful pollen oriented health care products. It offers a graceful glimpse via a nearly meditative viewing of the exceptional cosmos of the honeybee. It is not only a book worth reading, it is a life exploration to be shared and not to be missed by everyone who cares for our Earth and its' future.
J.M. Carnright
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Marianne October 21, 2009
Marianne
I found this book to be fascinating, informative and humorous. I never realized how important honey and honey bees are for us.
They truly live in a fascinating "Colony" world. Awesome book! ENJOY!
Cozy Read October 20, 2009
plumpie (Brooklyn, NY)
Humorous, charming, entertaining, educational. With its cool illustrations, tasty recipes, and intriguing narrative sprinkled with serendipitous events, Honeybee is the perfect book to curl up with in your hive.
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