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Berkey Bee Honey FarmHome of the Best Local Honey and Hardest Working Bees!Catch the Buzz! Read a Book!Last month we were invited to the Defiance Public Library in Defiance Ohio to talk about our favorite thing: Bees! It was lots of fun! We met some very nice young people, parents and excellent librarians! The children had fun. Many of them made bee antennae hats and wore them around. We first had a great book read to us called The Beeman byLaurie Krebs and Valeria Cis. It is a great book. In fact I liked it so much I have bought a copies for my grandchildren. Then we showed every one some of the bee equipment we brought, a hive, comb, and even some drone bees. This made me think about all the great books out there for folks to read that talk about bees. So I am going to use this page to write up a few notes on some of my favorite books about bees. If there is a book you would like to see reviewed here, drop us an email or write the review yourself and I will post it. Books for AdultsThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - This book really got me thinking about beekeeping. The story is set in South Carolina in 1964. Lily Owens mother was killed and she escapes with her black stand in mother. Lily is introduced to the mesmerizing world of bees and honey. It touches on the parallels between the power of females in the hive and in our own lives.
Following the Bloom by Douglas Whynott - "Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers." If you are a beekeeper you probably have already read this book. It is a great description of a year with the bees, traveling up the eastern seaboard pollinating oranges, cranberries, blueberries, and the sweet clover of North Dakota. |
Childrens' BooksThe Beeman by Krebs and Cis, ages 2 - 10. Very accurate and well illustrated.
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco, ages 5 - 10. When Mary Ellen gets tired of reading indoors, her grandfather knows that a hunt for a bee tree is just the thing! Doing what the oldtimers used to call "bee - lining" Mary and her Grandpa find a bee tree! Great illustrations! Beekeeping BooksThere are so many books on beekeeping it is hard to know where to start. So I will just list some of my favorites in no particular order.
The Hive and the Honeybee, Rev. L.L. Langstroth. This is the classic manual on beekeeping, first written in 1854 by an Ohio Minister who basically invented the hive we use today, with moveable frames. Langstroth was one of the first to discover and publish information on the bee space. That is the amount of space that bees need and maintain in their hive between the combs. (3/8"). ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture. Another classic from Ohio, first written by A.I.Root of Medina Ohio, now in its 40th Edition, it is an encyclopedia of beekeeping. Keeping Bees at Buckfast Abbey by Brother Adam. Brother Adam developed a system of bee breeding that is still followed by many today. He developed a famous strain of bees called the Buckfast line. |
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