![]() ![]() ![]() I actually enjoyed her articles in ABJ and sought out her books. But that wasn’t Hubbell’s style at all – and her message was all about hard work, common sense, and love of nature. At the time, I was a no-nonsense commercial beekeeper with little time for fun stories about hippie-style beekeeping. She wrote about her midlife adventures in American Bee Journal in the late 1970s and later in her books. She ran the farm alone, learning to fix machinery and manage the bees and honey sales. Her beekeeping really began when Mr Hubbell moved on, leaving Sue divorced and the sole proprietor of all those bees. Her beekeeping began when she and her husband spent a year (1972) roaming America and ended up in the Missouri Ozarks, suddenly owning 90 acres and 300 hives of bees. ![]() Sue Hubbell died last week at the age of 83. They can be entertaining, motivating, and thought-provoking, while also providing the truth about real-world bee management challenges. Her books, A Country Year: Living the Questions (1986) and A Book of Bees and How to Keep Them (1988) showed me that books about beekeeping don’t need to be dry renditions of mechanics and simplified biology. One of the first really good beekeeping story tellers whom I remember encountering was Sue Hubbell. ![]()
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