Revery : a year of bees / Jenna Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Jenna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bee culture--Alberta, Northern.

Bee culture.

Bee culture--Alberta.

Organic farming--Alberta, Northern.

Organic farming.

Farm life--Alberta, Northern.

Farm life.

Butler, Jenna.

Alberta.

Northern Alberta.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

123 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, ON, Canada : Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day in late November as the bees are settling in for winter she takes us through a year in beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. Weaving together her personal story with the practical aspects of running a farm she takes us into the worlds of honeybees and wild bees. She considers the twinned development of the canola and honey industries in Alberta and the impact of crop sprays, debates the impact of introduced flowers versus native flowers, the effect of colony collapse disorder and the protection of natural environments for wild bees. But this is also the story of women and bees and how beekeeping became Jenna Butler's personal survival story."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Building Home: Learning the Ecosystems of the Farm

Superorganism

Horning Day

Sweet White Gold

Emergence

A Careful Balance: Wild Bees Versus Domesticated Honeybees

Beekeeping in Company: A Chronology of Community

Beekeeping at the Edge of the Boreal

How You Heal: The Medicine of the Hive

Shuttering the Season

Tell It to the Bees.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: pages 121-123.

ISBN:

9781989496138

198949613X

OCLC:

1128718678

Publisher Number:

99989762318