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After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day in late November as the bees are settling in for winter she takes us through a year in beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. Weaving together her personal story with the practical aspects of running a farm she takes us into the worlds of honeybees and wild bees. She considers the twinned development of the canola and honey industries in Alberta and the impact of crop sprays, debates the impact of introduced flowers versus native flowers, the effect of colony collapse disorder and the protection of natural environments for wild bees. But this is also the story of women and bees and how beekeeping became Jenna Butler's personal survival story.
Introduction -- Building home: learning the ecosystem of the farm -- Superorganism -- Homing day -- Sweet white gold -- Emergence -- A careful balance: wild bees versus domesticated honeybees -- Beekeeping at the edge of the boreal -- How you heal: the medicine of the hive -- Shuttering the season -- Tell it to the bees -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123).