This wonderful, accessible book takes beekeeping as a starting
point for talking about everything under the sun. An American,
Winston is a professor of biological sciences at a Canadian
university. A scientist first, he became a beekeeper and writer. We
are richer for his attempt to bring these diverse worlds together
and into sharp focus. Using his own experiences and drawing on a
wide range of ideas and examples from popular culture, Winston
tells us a great deal about bees, but also about life, how people
try to keep contact with nature, the problems of modern
agriculture, the accountability of scientists. The 31 essays can be
read in order or are equally delightful to dip into. (Kirkus UK)
A scientist before he was a beekeeper, Mark L. Winston found in his
new hobby a paradigm for understanding the role science should play
in society. In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee
Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping
as a starting point to discuss broader issues, such as how
agriculture functions under increasingly complex social and
environmental restraints, how scientists grapple with issues of
accountability, and how people struggle to maintain contact with
the natural world. Winston's reflections on bees, beekeeping, and
science cover a period of tumultuous change in North America, a
time when new parasites, reduced research funding, and changing
economic conditions have disrupted the livelihoods of bee
farmers."Managed honeybees in the city provide a major public
service by pollinating gardens, fruit trees, and berry bushes, and
should be encouraged rather than legislated out of existence. Our
cities, groomed and cosmopolitan as they appear, still obey the
basic rules of nature, and our gardens and yards are no exception.
Homegrown squashes, apple trees, raspberries, peas, beans, and
other garden crops require bees to move the pollen from one flower
to another, no matter how urbanized or sophisticated the
neighborhood."
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