Offers advice and tips on raising bees in the backyard, considering topics such as basic equipment, common diseases and pests, different types of honey, and homemade products that include honey.

The husband-and-wife team behind the nonprofit HoneyLove make the case that beekeeping ought to be treated as more than a hobby or money-making enterprise. It is an entrance into a complex and sometimes fierce world that must be engaged and understood on its own terms.

Follows a beekeeper through the four seasons, showing how bees and humans work together to make honey.

"Their bees produce the most delectable honey in Wisconsin, and the three Christner girls' spirited sweetness is attracting any number of hopeful suitors. Independent Poppy Christner isn't about to let a vandal keep making mischief on her family's farm. She's outrun boys and stood up to bullies since she was a girl -- no matter how much schoolmate Luke Bontrager insulted her. Poppy certainly doesn't need his interference now. And if Luke doesn't stop...

Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt's unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie. A childhood trauma and secret shame keep her heart under lock and key, and Rose just can't accept the sweet attention she's receiving from a handsome neighbor. But the more she shies away from Josiah Yoder, the more their families sneakily plot to bring...

"Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--

"Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her...

The boxcar children are helping harvest honey at a farm one of Grandfather's friends owns. They're excited to learn about bees and eat fresh honey. But then several mishaps occur. Is someone trying to ruin the harvest?

Having just graduated from college, Barry B. Benson finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice - honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa. He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bee's honey for centuries. He ultimately realizes that his true calling...