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Butler, Jenna.
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Butler, Jenna.
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Bee culture -- Alberta, Northern -- Anecdotes.
Organic farming -- Alberta, Northern.
Farm life -- Alberta, Northern.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
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Butler, Jenna.
Butler, Jenna.
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Bee culture -- Alberta, Northern -- Anecdotes.
Organic farming -- Alberta, Northern.
Farm life -- Alberta, Northern.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
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Revery : a year of bees /
Jenna
Butler
.
by
Butler
,
Jenna
.
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, 2020.
Call #:
819.46 B985r
Subjects
Butler
,
Jenna
.
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Bee culture -- Alberta, Northern -- Anecdotes.
Organic farming -- Alberta, Northern.
Farm life -- Alberta, Northern.
Canadian essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781989496138 (pbk.)
Description:
123 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical (pages 121-123) references.
Summary:
"After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta,
Jenna
Butler
[the author of critically acclaimed books of poetry, a professor of creative writing and eco-criticism at Red Deer College] 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."--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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