A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees Beginner with the plants coming alive

with the plants coming alive with shiny gold foil accents

and Eastern or Say's Phoebe

"—Susan Bernstein

V and A Magazine

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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees Beginner with the plants coming aliveA Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybees a gift that, according to folklore, brings good luck and Jukes embarks on the rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper. Jukes writes about what it means to "keep" wild creatures and to live alongside beings whose laws of life are so different from our own. She