A Barrel of Very Good Meadfrom:The True Amazons: or, the Monarchy of Bees by Joseph Warder of Croyden, Physician (1765)"One hundred and twenty pounds will make a Barrel of very good Mead: But if you make it of clear Honey, then your best way is to allow four...
{rawcontent 10} If the folk and fancy of beekeeping is delightful, working with bees is downright amazing. And no one speaks of this life more eloquently than Sue Hubbell in "Country Year, Living the Questions" (Random House). Hubbell, a single woman in...
{rawcontent 9} "The Sacred Bee" by Hilda M. Ransome, originally published in 1937 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, has been "reprinted by popular demand" by Bee Books New and Old (Tapping Wall Farm, Stathe Rd., Burrowbridge, Somerset TA7...
by Phil Mariola (reprinted with permission from the Summer 1987 AMA Journal) Most people who aren’t beekeepers or who don’t have a family member who is a beekeeper know surprisingly little about honey. Honey, as defined by the USDA, is “the nectar...
by Michael SissonFirst collect your materials. Honey: the neon messages of corolla colors clash like advertisements in a language absolutely material: sap secreted in the center of buckwheat, clover, goldenrod – names that allude to pastoral origins, essential...
