![]() ![]() ![]() I really rooted for both Jukes and her little hive as her diary pushed through the year and she watched for swarms both personal and hive-wise. The bees are solace and concern all rolled into one and Jukes’s writing style is loaded with emotion, making her feelings accessible to every type of reader. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openingsis Helen Jukes’s tale of relocating to Oxford and starting a proper beekeeping journey in the midst of huge changes in her professional and personal life. Since becoming actively interested in the buzzies that fly around my house, I’ve also started reading some narrative nonfiction about bees in an effort to broaden my scope of understanding of beekeeping in different places. ![]() A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes There are plenty of high quality glossy photographs, making the entire process of making, keeping and maintaining hives an easy concept to grasp (if not to execute) and there’s plenty of conversation here about wax product making, honey extraction and beekeeping as a business. Even if you never plan to keep bees, this is the place to learn the difference between queens, drones, and workers pollen nectar and liquid gold honey. ![]()
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