βWhen your first tomato is ripe, take salt and pepper to the garden. Pluck the fruit from the vine. Cut into quarters, sprinkle it with salt and pepper, and pop it, a quarter at a time into your mouth. I shall be listening to your sigh of contentment.β Angelo M. Pellegrini
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Reading this weekend: White Goats and Black Bees by Donald Grant, a classic farming memoir set in rural Ireland during the 1950’s and ’60’s.
Have you gotten as far as the black bees in the book yet π ?
Are they carpenter bees of some sort, or Apis mellifera?
This is a book I have read before, an easy pleasant read. They are just referred to as “Irish Black Bees” and they are clearly honey bees. So I looked online this morning and found that the Irish Black bees are a native honey bee (Apis mellifera) and are threatened. http://www.irishdarknativehoneybees.com/why-the-native-bee.html.
I should also mention, as part of our ongoing biblio-agrarian throwdown, that I just found a first edition with dustjacket of this book for $1.99. π
Will be ordering it then π
Those black bees still are victims of political repression here – which is why a hive of them will move in with me next year.
Well said, Mr. Pellegrini. Just ate our first ripe tomato this morning. Can you hear the sigh?
A very interesting short article on the black bees.
Dear Sir:
We have noted recent poking with photos of books and the not so subtle remarks as say: “ongoing biblio-agrarian throwdown”. We still await the terms of judges as to whether agricultural research journals might stand for evidence of biblio-agrarian fodder.
I see your emoji, and raise you one π π