HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper E–pub New

• Hardcover
• 256
• HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper
• C. Marina Marchese
• English
• 15 June 2020
• 9781579128159

C. Marina Marchese ´ 8 review

HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper review è eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF Now in paperback Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves In 1999 Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives She uit her job acuired 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 ow. This was not the best book I have read in this genre but I did enjoy parts of it Part of the problem is that the books did not seem to know what it wanted to be It started out as a memoir on how the author got into beekeeping then it flirted with being a beekeeping manual without uite enough details For a while I felt that it was an advertisement for the author s line of natural bee products that I am not familiar with and then it turned into a review of honeys around the world with a pitch that honey should be as competitive as fine wines Any of those books would have been fine but the odd mixture of incomplete parts left me feeling that it was not well laid out and it definitely needed editing There is an interesting index of world famous honeys in the back and it does mention my personal favorite Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey perhaps because I have not tried many of the others but Leatherwood is excellent so I liked that partI expected the book to be like the excellent though obscure Beeing Life Motherhood and 180000 Honeybees by Rosanne Daryl Thomas which I read a few years ago and absolutely loved 5 stars but this book was not nearly so inspiring If you liked this book please find a copy of Beeing as it is a much better book in this genre If you want a better book on the different types of honey in the world I recommend The Honey Trail In Pursuit of Liuid Gold and Vanishing Bees by Grace Pundyk which is a fascinating travel tale sampling the honeys of the world and where they come from with many details than this book

HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper review è eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF N honey business Today Red Bee® Honey sells artisanal honey and honey related products to shops and restaurants all over the country More than an inspiring story of one woman's transformative relationship with honeybees some of nature's most fascinating creatures Honeybee is also bursting with information about all aspects of bees beekeeping and honey Including life inside the hive; the role of the ueen workers and drones;. It was a fast easy read with some illustrative diagrams and recipes for honey and beeswax throughoutThe book is basically a memoir of how Marchese came to bee keeping how she established her first hive and explains some of the basic knowledge beekeepers need to maintain healthy hives and harvest honey for public consumption The writer shows her affection for her bees which is endearing She s also a now a retailer of honey and beeswax products so it sometimes reads as blatant advertising and I tended to take some of her health benefit claims for honey with a grain of salt I was interested in her account of how she started her hive in the context of imagining us taking on a similar project She lays out a clear description of the euipment necessary to start beekeeping She also explains what a typical year of caring for a hive looks like Her discussion of how bees are essential to food crops through pollination is uite good

Summary HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

HONEYBEE From Hive to Home Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper review è eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF Pollination and its importance to sustaining all life; the culinary pleasures of honey; hiving and keeping honeybees; the ancient practice of apitherapy or healing with honey pollen and bee venom; and much Recipes for food and personal care products appear throughout Also included is an excellent one of a kind appendix that lists 75 different honey varietals with information on provenance tasting notes and food and wine pairin. Not that I m planning on becoming a beekeeper but ever since Tom s present to be last year a conference on the honeybee I ve been intrigued by these little creatures This piece is story book recipe book history book and biology book all rolled into one A very interesting read for someone who wants to learn something unfamiliar