HONEYBEE: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper

By C. Marina Marchese

Book Overview

Now in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves " An] engaging, delightfully informative work?" ? Publishers Weekly "Marchese has given us a lovely gift. Honeybee is an entertaining and useful primer for the novice and honeybee devotee alike." ? Washington Times "Surpassing the predictable "how I changed careers" memoir of finding the good life, Marchese's informative guide is packed with facts about everything from pollination to harvesting, life cycles to historical lore, nutritional benefits to gourmet flavor combinations, medical applications to unusual varieties." ? Booklist In 1999, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. She quit her job, acquired her own bees, built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own honey business. Today, Red Bee(R) Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related products to shops and restaurants all over the country. More than an inspiring story of one woman's transformative relationship with honeybees (some of nature's most fascinating creatures), Honeybee is also bursting with information about all aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey'including life inside the hive; the role of the queen, workers, and drones; pollination and its importance to sustaining all life; the culinary pleasures of honey; hiving and keeping honeybees; the ancient practice of apitherapy, or healing with honey, pollen, and bee venom; and much more. Recipes for food and personal care products appear throughout. Also included is an excellent, one-of-a-kind appendix that lists 75 different honey varietals, with information on provenance, tasting notes, and food-and-wine pairings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579128157
• ISBN13: 9781579128159
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Beelightful

I have been buying Marinas honey for the past four years, 5 gallons at a time. It is rare to find a person who like their business as much as Marina loves hers! I think I have taken a peek inside this bee keeper, now I see what the buzz is all about. Che Peter Gorman

Honeybee - A Book of Value

Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper, is an intriguing and wondrous journey through a spellbinding world created by author, Marina Marchese. Marchese's study of the world of bees offers revelations our human world needs to consider and become privy to. This is not just a book for beekeepers and those who love the taste of honey. It is an in-depth, inviting exploration of an invaluable creature's life which plays an all important, eternal role in the on-going salvation of Earth, Nature and the survival of Humankind! Ms. Marchese has fully crossed the threshold of this fantastic realm by living daily within it. She reveals, interprets and depicts the dynamic presence and respect afforded life's magnificent Queen Bee by multitudes of male subjects. Equally, "Honeybee" makes us well aware of our own need to fully understand, value and protect the life of this small but magnificent lifeform. Marina Marchese's book, "Honeybee" offers us so very much more. It tenders succulent recipes; splendid wine and honey concoctions and blends; and helpful pollen oriented health care products. It offers a graceful glimpse via a nearly meditative viewing of the exceptional cosmos of the honeybee. It is not only a book worth reading, it is a life exploration to be shared and not to be missed by everyone who cares for our Earth and its' future. J.M. Carnright Futuristic Author: "ARIA HAHN -The Astral Light Journeys"

good connection

Marina truly touches the love of the hive, this is something you understand by opening a colony and see the world inside. You can easily see the how deeply the bees have touched her. This was a pleasure to read and as a keeper it made so many common threads that I found myself constantly say "oh yeah...me to". Also the reading was very comfortable and fliud.

wonderful adventure for all of the senses!

I could not put down this book! Read it with a smile on my face from cover to cover! The author's personal storyline and historical overviews of beekeeping make it a wonderful read for anyone wanting to learn about beekeeping or honey tasting and hive products. I especially enjoyed the author's glossary of terms and honey descriptions in the back of the book. As a honey lover and beekeeper, I have struggled to find words to describe varietal honeys, and the author provided them for me. You will not be disappointed with this read~a great addition to any library!!

An interesting read

This book is excellent for both beginner and experienced beekeepers addressing the incredibly wide range of how honey bees affect all our lives. Beginning with pollination, health and healing, history and the vast world of honeys the author discovers while traveling around the world. The author is passionate about the subject and it comes through in the story. Highly recommended.