Honeybees and Recipes

By: Catherine Bennett

HONEYBEES & RECIPES is a delightful book written especially for non-beekeepers and hobbyist beekeepers wanting to enjoy honeybee products and help honeybees survive. The book takes the unusual approach of providing recipes not only for cooking with honey, but for other uses of bee products in beauty, health and around the home. It includes ? Recipes using honey, propolis, pollen, beeswax, royal jelly and bee venom in cooking and everyday life for health and beauty, and household applications. ?Safety around honeybees and treating honeybee stings. ?Gardening to attract honeybees. ?Beekeeper basics including recipes for the bees. ?Honeybee swarm removal. ?Uses and sources of honey, propolis, pollen, beeswax, royal jelly, & bee venom. ?A look at the history and the future of imported honeybees and native bees. ?Insight into the life and society of honeybees and how they make honey and other products. ?Recipes for helping the honeybees survive. ?Quotes and illustrations about honeybees. Authored by Catherine Bennett who has been beekeeping for more than 15 years with her husband Robert at Melrose, an antebellum plantation in Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay. As a founding member of the Northern Neck Beekeepers Club and former president of The Rappahannock Garden Club of White Stone, Catherine enjoys giving presentations about honeybees and wrote this book to inspire others to know more about honeybees and ways we can help them, and in turn help ourselves, survive.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991287606
• ISBN13: 9780991287604
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Melrose Plantation Press
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.