Oh bees, oh bees. I am reading all about you. I have contacted a man who makes hives! I will hive you. I must join a beekeeping organization and order a couple colonies. Will you sting me for my efforts? Will you tolerate me like my rabbit does? Will I have to get a full-body beekeeping outfit? Heh.
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Last year I read Hannah Nordhaus’s book ‘The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America’ and recommend it if you haven’t already seen it. Among other things, it has a stinging indictment (yeah, sorry, there will bee so many swarms of bee puns as a result of this endeavor that you will break out in… oh never mind.) of honey laundering. Honey laundering = bad.
I cannot WAIT to hear more about this!
Am I right that you read Robin McKinley’s CHALICE?
Yes?
BEEKEEPING!!! HONEY!
Also, while you start beekeeping, you should read the first Mary Russell mystery… THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE.
Just for fun!
I assume you know whether or not you are allergic to bee stings, right?
@JM I’ve been hearing about honey laundering – if you are referring to the Chinese selling honey to other nations from which we import honey (also degradation of our honey supplies by folks adding corn syrup to it…). I haven’t read “Beekeeper’s Lament” yet, however. Will add it to my list.
@CSEC I have read “Chalice” – loved it so much. I think I started listening to “Beekeeper’s Apprentice,” but the narrator wasn’t working for me. May try it again sometime. YAY, bees!
@O The couple who taught my class last weekend said that they hear lots of people say, “Oh, I’m terribly allergic to bees!” But they’re referring to how the sting hurts and how it gets red and inflamed. Which is what’s supposed to happen with a bee sting. Heh. Anyway. I haven’t been stung in awhile…I think the last time was about 5 years ago at work – there was a bee stuck in my shirt (weird, huh?) and we had a difference of opinion about how to get it out. I just have the ouch reaction. I hear you can get desensitized to bee stings, and even that some people have found that bee venom helps with inflammation (can relieve arthritis). I’m pretty curious about this, too. My mom has painful arthritis in her lower back, and my knee surgeon said I am likely to develop it in my knee (because I now have this lovely bone on bone situation there) at some point.