A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings | 
pickBusy white tailed bumblebee on Scabosia
Such a beautiful little book. Jukes discusses her research into beekeeping and it's history, as she sets up her own hive.
Inspirational stuff, I'm now saving for my own top bar hive 🐝🍯
#naturalitsy
pickI appear to be gathering a shelf of books that might be subtitled "what other creatures taught me about being human". This time it's bees. It made for the perfect bedtime book. I especially delighted in HJ's propensity for consulting the dictionary whenever her perceptions and experiences of the bees and her keeping of them perplexed her.
📚I love my librarians. I picked up my second book hoard from them and they tucked in back issues of Bookpages I never got to read due to Covid.
🐝To which I promptly got on Book Depository to order the gorgeous U.K. edition of this because it called to my beekeeping heart.
#beekeeper #pollinatorprotector #beelover #savethehoneybee
Not book related but I'm super excited I managed to complete this course while also homeschooling my child 😂
Hopefully I'll have my own hive in the next couple years!
pickI've been considering beekeeping for quite some time. I started an online course a few weeks ago and it has been fascinating! I loved reading this memoir about a year of beekeeping, especially since there were so many things she explained that I was excited to realize I've learned!
Today‘s #MayARC is available May 5th (or back in 2018 for UK Littens). I‘m completely fascinated by bees although my mother thinks I‘m allergic (I haven‘t been stung since I was too little to remember for myself).
pickIt took a few chapters to get in to this book but once I got there I enjoyed it and learned so much about bees and beekeeping intertwined with the authors life during the process of establishing her own hive, that I read the rest of it in one sitting. I wasn‘t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did.
so-soI got this book as a gift. It took me a while to get into it, because this book is not one i would have picked out myself. There are a lot of facts about bees. Around the halfway point I really got into it and finished in one sitting
pickWarm, meditative and joyful, Helen Jukes‘ account of a year spent keeping bees was just the read I needed as I wait impatiently for spring to arrive. The book blossoms as her hive (and her obsession) develops, and she muses about care, openness, and closeness to our environment and those around us. Interspersed with history and mythology about bees, I would highly recommend this to nature lovers or fans of quiet, introspective memoir.
Such a gorgeous window graphic for this new book. It‘s about a woman who is in a bit of a life rut and is gifted a hive of bees - which are meant to bring good luck. The memoir is her journey to a happy place with the help of the bees. Sounds interesting and the writing has been given high praise. #somethingdifferent
