bee culture

Josie wants to take over her family's business, Hazeldine Honey, but is lying to her mother and best friend about starting college in the fall, and secretly dating Ezra, the grandson of her mother's nemesis.

Covers all aspects of beekeeping.

A foray into the obsessions, friendships, scientific curiosity, misfortunes, and rewards of suburban beekeeping, as revealed by a Master Beekeeper.

"Learn how to properly house your bees in all seasons, manage your colony's nutrition, maintain an effective pollination schedule, prevent and treat mites and disease, introduce a new queen to the hive, capture a swarm, [and] harvest and store your honey crop"--Provided by publisher.

"Discover whether honey beekeeping is right for you, and find out everything you need to know to keep and acquire bees in this updated guide . . . counsels beginners on all things honeybee related. Takes readers from finding bees and housing them to collecting honey and using their produce for pleasure and possible profit"--Publisher.

"Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: bees! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia's dad is a beekeeper. . . But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia. Can she find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is?"--Provided by publisher.

"A naturalist's passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from them"--Amazon.

Readers learn how honey is made, from bees collecting flower nectar to beekeepers collecting and jarring it.

Traces the natural history of bees and honey, focusing on how they have impacted the lives of humans from prehistory to the present.

Covers the physical characteristics of honeybees, as well as how they live in colonies, produce honey, and are managed by beekeepers.