Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813134358 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Africa to Australia to Asia, women have participated in the pragmatic aspects of honey hunting and in the more advanced skills associated with beekeeping as hive technology has advanced through the centuries. Queen bee. Horn finds in beekeeping an opportunity for a new sustainable economy, one that takes into consideration environment, children, and family needs. Worker bees. Synthesizing the various aspects of hive-related products, such as beewax and cosmetics, as well as the more specialized skills of queen production and knowledge-based economies of research and science, noted bee expert Tammy Horn documents how and why women should conside
A Different Take on the Beekeeping World I have kept bees since the 1970s and have read quite a few books about the subject. This is definitely worth buying if you are interested in the human side of keeping bees. What attracts people to bees, anyway? The answer to that question varies widely and in this book you will meet women who can answer the question each in her own way.It's true that it used to be when someone said beekeeper, it conjured up a picture of an old guy with a beard and a smudge pot, surrounded. "A Celebration of Women and Bees" according to Sabrina. Dr. Tammy Horn has written a wonderfully readable and entertaining account of a serious and little-known subject: women and their association with bees. Her investigation cuts a wide historical swath, from deepest antiquity to the present day, and demonstrates women's roles in apiculture, in the sacred tending of bees and in the development of bee products like cosmetics and medicines, over thousands of years and around the globe. Her accounts of individual women througho. A MUST READ! Anyone who is interested in global economy or nature will love this informative book on how honeybees shape our world. I am a professional beekeeper and after almost fifteen years of keeping bees, I learned new things. Fascinating! Abigail Keam, award winning author of "Death By A HoneyBee".
Finally, the women are all in the light."Kim Flottum, author of Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees and editor of Bee Culture magazine""This unique book tells the story of women in the world of honey bees and beekeeping, from historical times to today and across every continent."Francis Ratnieks, Sussex University""Beeconomy examines the fasciniating evolution of the relationship between women and bees around the worldThe women profiled in the book suggest ways of managing careers, gender discrimination, motherhood, marriage and single parentingall while enjoying the community created by women who work with honeybees." Edible Louisville & The Bluegrass Region""In this engagi
She is the director of Coal Country Beeworks, a multi-service project in which surface mine sites are reclaimed with pollinator habitat in eastern Kentucky. . She lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Tammy Horn was raised with beekeepers on both sides of her family