HONEYBEE: LESSONS FROM AN ACCIDENTAL BEEKEEPER

Book ID/图书代码： 01899009B32995

English Summary/英文概要： One woman’s charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur—plus everything you’d ever want to know about bees.

Ten years ago, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor’s honeybee hives. Surprised to find that allowing docile honeybees to crawl across her hands instilled a serene tranquility and comfort, Marina quit her job, acquired her own bees, built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own business. Today, Red Bee Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related products to shops and restaurants all over the country.

Honeybee is not only a warm and inspiring story of one woman’s intimate experience with honeybees (arguably the most industrious creatures on earth) but it is also bursting with fascinating and practical information about all aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey, including life inside the beehive and the role of the queen, drones, and workers; how bees make honey; pollination and its importance in sustaining life; building a beehive; hiving and keeping honeybees; harvesting honey and comb; healing with honey and the practice of apitherapy; and much, much more. Recipes for food, drink, and personal care products are included throughout. Also included is a detailed appendix of 75 different varieties of honey.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十年前，当时还在一家礼品公司任职的玛丽娜玛姬斯，果断决定放下手头的事业，摇身一变成为一名养蜂人，并转而投向蜂蜜制造行业。这一切都源于一次蜂房的访问，在对邻近社区养蜂场的游览过程中，她不仅克服了原先对于蜜蜂的恐惧，并对这门行业有了全新的了解和认知；在叹为观止的同时，玛丽娜更为新鲜蜂蜜的香醇所深深折服。
随后的日子里，她一步步潜心学习，从蜜蜂的解剖到蜂巢的构造，从架设朗式蜂箱再到购入防护衣罩和喷烟器(在工作时，实现减轻蜂群攻击性之目的)，玛丽娜逐渐成长着。还记得第一次，她将意大利种工蜂导入蜂巢的同时，还要同时试图引入女王蜂，整个过程中，她足足被蛰了六口。但这丝毫不减她对于蜜蜂这种神奇昆虫的喜爱：授粉、舞蹈、分蜂等等这些在其眼中都是如此的著迷。
这本书除了讲述玛丽娜与蜜蜂之间的故事之外，还提供了大量关于蜜蜂的实用讯息，涵盖了方方面面：除去蜜蜂、蜂蜜及养蜂术之外，更有蜂王、雄蜂、工蜂等在种群中的角色剖析；授粉，蜂巢的构建、蜜蜂的孵化及养育；蜂蜜的制成、采集和梳理等等。读者还可以在附录中看到75种丰富多样的蜂蜜介绍。 (AW)

Awards/获奖情况：Nine years ago, from her home in Connecticut, Marchese, then a creative director for a giftware company, became a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur. In this engaging, delightfully informative work, she recounts how visits to the apiaries of the neighboring community’s Back Yard Beekeepers overcame her initial trepidation of bees as she learned about the industry and craftsmanship of these insects and became bowled over by the taste of fresh honey. Step by step she explains how she got started as a beekeeper, from studying bee anatomy and hive organization, to ordering equipment online such as her Langstroth hive, a smoker (to calm the bees while working) and protective clothing. She had to learn to pour her three pounds of live Italian honeybees into the hive (the first time she got stung six times), while carefully introducing the all-powerful queen. Marchese is fascinated by the marvels of bee behavior—pollen foraging, dances, swarming—and imparts as well a goodly bit of bee history. She offers plenty of her own honey-beeswax concoctions, both edible and cosmetic, with excellent appendixes on the varietals of honey. (Sept.) ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： C. Marina Marchese is the founder and owner of Red Bee Honey, purveyors of honey and honey related products. She has been keeping bees for more than nine years. Red Bee products can be found in gourmet food shops and in the finest restaurants all over the country including Murray’s Cheese Shop, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Eleven Madison, The BLT Cafe at The Ritz-Carlton in New York and Winvian, the exclusive resort Litchfield, CT. Marina is certified by the American Apitherapy Society and has trained as a honey Judge at the University of Georgia. She serves on the board of the Back Yard Beekeepers Association in Connecticut. She has written for Bee Culture Magazine and The Journal of American Apitherapy Society. Red Bee Honey was the cover story of The American Bee Journal in 2004. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, she is also an award-winning illustrator and designer

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