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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 106 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Experience the joy of keeping bees and learn more about hive styles, pest management, harvesting honey, modern uses for beeswax, and so much more! Are you considering becoming a beekeeper, or ever wondered what it would be like to have your own beehives'. Maybe you want to produce fresh honey for your family, or increase the yield of your garden through better pollination. Master Beekeeper Charlotte Anderson gives you all the fundamentals of becoming...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way. Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it's not just our honey supply that's at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops is essential to human survival. But even in industrial apiaries, bees are in distress, hiving in synthetic and hostile environments. Enter idle beekeeping: the grassroots,...
Author
Series
Bella Vista volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While transforming Bella Vista, her childhood home, into a destination cooking school, chef Isabel Johansen finds her plans interrupted by war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill who has arrived to dig up old history.
Author
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Beekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees' health and productivity. From housing to nutrition, to treating pests and diseases, Common Sense Natural Beekeeping introduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management. This book teaches holistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes: lessons from the way bees live in the wild, management strategies that respect the natural intelligence...
Author
Language
English
Description
Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds. Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera; Lark is but the keeper of his bees and the woman he is hoping will provide a tincture that might help his ailing wife conceive and bear him an heir. When his wife dies suddenly, Magnus and Lark find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of accusations, expelled from their beloved island, and sold as indentured servants...
Author
Series
Honeybee sisters volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Affectionately dubbed The Honeybee Sisters in their Wisconsin Amish community, the three Christner girls are devoted beekeepers who are coming-of-age--and discovering the sweet surprise of love ... Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt's unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie . A childhood trauma and secret shame keep her heart...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees-- and the singular world of his fellow bee-keepers. In connecting with a club of disparate but kindred spirits, he discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see, think, and feel; how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats, both human and mite. Mortimer delivers an...
10) Burt's buzz
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shapiro takes us into the reclusive backwoods world of beekeeper Shavitz, still committed to living off the land in Maine, as he has since the 1970s, in a renovated turkey coop with no running water. Shapiro explores Shavitz's peculiar relationship with the company he co-founded with Roxanne Quimby. The birth of Burt's Bees and its emergence as a lucrative brand may be the stuff of legend, but it's also contentious: Shavitz sold his shares decades...
Author
Series
Climate novels volume 1
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
13) Palimpsest
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson is named in the trust of a man she's never heard of, she's...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016, 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows a beekeeper as he raises honeybees in hives in his backyard, uses special care in handling the bees, and jars their sweet honey to share with family and friends.
17) Ulee's gold
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Florida beekeeper escapes one battle only to find himself in another as a long-buried secret threatens his family and his livelihood.
19) Beekeepers
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in spring.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet village far from the noise of Victorian London, Sydney Silchester lives the life of a recluse. But when his honey supplier is found stung to death, the search for a new beekeeper takes him to the most interesting man in England--a man whose brilliant mind will lure Sydney into a life-threatening adventure. When Mycroft Holmes learns of the tragic death of the village's other beekeeper, he senses the bloody hand of murder. But what villain...
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