An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive - a year of living dangerously - watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world. "As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it. "--Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering...

A guide to keeping bees that offers information and tips on financial and legal considerations, hive location, equipment, colony management, harvesting the crop, diseases, and other related topics.