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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
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2022, c2013.
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English
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What happens when a writer sets up a backyard beehive? You get a beekeeping book full of fun and fascinating facts about honey bees and our other favorite pollinators. A nature guide book for beekeeping beginners. Full of trivia, tips, legends, and lore--this quirky bee book swarms with interesting information, so you can have fun, learn stuff, grow your farm, or just relax. Writer and beekeeper Jack Mingo lives with half a million bees, and has picked...
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[1994]
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for kids ages 8 - 12
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for kids ages 8 - 12
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Follows a beekeeper through the four seasons, showing howbees and humans work together to make honey.
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[2018]
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English
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"[This guide] ... presents comprehensive yet accessible information on everything from planning hives and installing a colony to preventing disease and managing productive hives that will bear bountiful honey harvests year after year"--Amazon.com.
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2020.
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English
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"The second edition of bestselling Keeping Bees with a Smile shows beginner and practicing beekeepers how to attract local bee swarms, keep bees healthy and productive, build simple bee-friendly hives, and harvest honey without stressing bees. Chock-full of techniques for natural beekeeping."--
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
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"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--unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is."--
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[2012]
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English
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In recent years beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges, from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites and from the mysterious but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully, even without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs.More and more organically minded beekeepers are now using top-bar hives, in which the...
13) Bumblebee
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2011.
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Weather
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Weather
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Follows the life of a queen bee from the time she wakes from winter hibernation until cold weather returns to claim the colony she has built over the warm months.
14) The Beeman
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Farms
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Farms
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In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
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[2019]
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English
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The author shares a charming and eloquent account of a return to noticing, to rediscovering a perspective on the world that had somehow been lost to her for decades, and to reconnecting with the natural world. With special care and attention to the plight of pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, she shares fascinating details of the lives of flora and fauna.
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2011.
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Overview: The Beekeeper's Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from how to manage hives safely to harvesting one's own honey, and ideas for how to use honey and beeswax. Detailed instructions for making candles, furniture...
17) Telling the bees
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Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just has his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of the eucalyptus; and that...
18) Beehive
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[2020]
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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"An exploration of the life cycle of bees and how they construct hives and make honey."--
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
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Describes the process of making honey, from a bee's collection of nectar to honey production on a beekeeper's farm.
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[2011]
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English
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Recounts the experiences of John Miller, one of the foremost migratory beekeepers, who, despite mysterious epidemics that threaten American honey populations--and the nation's agribusiness--forges on and moves ahead in a new natural world.
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