Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner''s Guide to Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest

About Alethea Morrison

Alethea Morrison is the author of Homegrown Honey Bees. She lived in San Francisco with her husband photographer Mars Vilaubi before stepping into the wild yonder of rural Massachusetts together to raise their son keep bees and chickens brew beer sew clothes grow heirloom beans and otherwise slow down to smell the flowers of a handmade life. Their experience raising chickens was chronicled in Chick Days. Morrison works as the Creative Director at Storey Publishing and serves as president of the Northern Berkshire Beekeepers Association.Photographer Mars Vilaubi chronicled the adventures of his three backyard hens from their first days out of the egg through their first days laying eggs in Chick Days. He lives in western Massachusetts.