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Whynott, Douglas. Following the Bloom: Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin: 2004.
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Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky: 2005.
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3 comments:
Neat topic! I almost researched the history of gardens. A Museum of those entities at work producing the gardens (so to speak) is really neat!)
I was looking online at parts of "The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting" by beekeeping expert Eva Crane. It's almost 700 pages full of some pretty engaging and sometimes quite poetic information about bees. You can look at it on Google Books here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ANTSvKj1AZEC . Unfortunately the Brown libraries appear not to have it. :(
Additionally, perhaps you could arrange to chat with someone from or visit the Rhode Island Beekepers Association! Their site, including a newsfeed exclusively picking up news about bees and honey, is here: http://www.ribeekeeper.org/index.php . They have monthly meetings on the second Sunday of each month, which might be cutting it a little bit close with the paper, but which might be cool to do anyway. But you can probably get in touch with someone individually before then!
.Jenny.
Also, have you thought about bee sting homeopathic treatments? They are all the rage these days.
To respond to Jenny- there used to be a beekeeper who came to the farmer's market every Wed. on Wriston. You should go and see if you can hunt him down.
-Hollis
I'm not sure if this is too removed from the idea of the bee itself as commodity to be useful to you, but there are claims that honey from local bees can help ward off pollen allergies:
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/06/23/
does_eating_local_honey_help_prevent_allergies/
--nicole
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