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Before we begin, I just want to point out I took that awesome cover photo of a bee bum sticking out of that lovely penstemon on the paved trail just before you hit Vivian Park in Provo Canyon! (photo credit: myself)
UPCOMING EVENTS: Just because it’s nice to know, here is the next month or so I’ve got planned. (All plans are subject to change, of course.)
Feb 8th – Guest speaker on bees and pollinators, Sister Mock leads the international honey tasting. Sariah Masterson (the guest speaker) has asked us all to watch this ten minute video to prepare us for what she has prepared to share with us.
Feb 15th – Guest speaker on native plants, Brother Williams teaches last installment of medicinals, AND 3-4 nature journal pages and 2 reaction papers due!!!
Feb 22nd – Mini-lessons by Liberty and Ivan, Sister Mock teaches Food Forests.
Feb 29th – Mini-Lessons by Isabelle and Simon, Brother Williams takes the second hour.
Mar 7th – TBA
Homework items:
READ 10 Essential Herbs chapter 2 on Cayenne (pages 27-52)
WATCH the following short videos about pollinators, bees, and honey. It should take about 30 minutes to watch them all.
READ this very short webpage about how to describe honey terroir… https://www.benefits-of-honey.com/the-taste-of-honey/
WATCH this one last video. It’s technically still about a bee. 😉
If you are interested:
My favorite book about bees is called Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees. It’s on the reading list so if this is your thing, feel free to read it and write me a reaction paper. (I’ve read two books by this author – Thor Hanson – and they are so fantastic that I almost reached out to him to see if he could do a zoom meeting with our class to talk about his job as a biologist.)
If you are really in to super long and dense books that sometimes make you drowsy, you might enjoy What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees. This book is so dense that I haven’t even finished it yet. I had to put it down and move onto other things because it was taking me so long. However, this guy totally knows his stuff!!
And if it’s just pollinators of all kind that you are interested in AND you like super long and dense books, The Reason for Flowers might be for you. The first section is the most extensive reading of pollinators I have EVER read. Then the rest of the book goes more into flowers in general, although he comes back to bees when talking about eating flowers. This book is written by the same author as the book above – Stephan Buchmann.
And here’s one last photo of my sunflowers from a few years ago and a hard working little bee. (photo credit: myself again)
