Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Ibsen once wrote that he could not afford friendship. I have never known that kind of poverty. “Friendship” is too simple a term for the debt I owe to many people. Among international circles, numerous people such as Penny Walker, Keith and Trish Chisnall, Richard and Jane Jones, Nicola Bradbear, Kunal Sharma, Stan Glowacki, Gro Amdam, Jeremy Burbidge , Karl Showler, David Clemmons, Elise Sabatini, and Liann McGregor illuminated corners of their homelands in ways that left indelible memories of their kindness. Key colleagues in the academic community are as follows: James Kenkel, Kevin Jones, Frank Davis, and Cary Hazelwood, who provide bibliographic assistance; Hanna Watts, Robert Browning, and Nan Campbell, who have proved a good-natured field crew; Krista Whitaker and Tiffany Hamblin, who apply their logistic skills to grants with grace and humor; Jennifer Spock, Joyce Harrison, Karrie Atkins, Reagan Weaver, John Perry, Dobree Adams, Jonathan Greene, Bob Shadur, Marc Whitt, Jerry Wallace, Wayne Waddell, Richard Tussey, Tom Britz, Regina Fultz, Ian Mooers, Cassie Williams, Gerald Pogatschnick, and Eastern Kentucky University president Doug Whitlock, who provide a solid team. The University Press of Kentucky continues to provide invaluable guidance, most notably Steve Wrinn, Allison Webster, Mack McCormick, Ashley Runyon, Robert Brandon, Lin Wirkus, and Teresa Collins. xiii Acknowledgments xiv Research for this book was gleaned in the following libraries: Cape Town National Library, Cornell University’s Mann Library (the Hive and Honeybee Online Collection), Eastern Kentucky University Crabbe Library, International Bee Research Association, Pennsylvania State University,University of Cape Town, University of Connecticut , University of Kentucky William T. Young and Medical Libraries, University of Wisconsin–Madison Library, Victoria National Library (Australia), and Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park Library. In an era when editors seem to come and go, Kim Flottum and Joe Graham have continued to provide steady leadership at the helms of Bee Culture and American Bee Journal, respectively. Claire Waring of Bee Craft and John Phipps of Beekeepers Quarterly maintain the British posts. The Dadant and Walter T. Kelley Companies have shown great generosity in supplies and information. Kathy Summers and Dawn Feagan complete the much-needed, oft-invisible editorial network. Philanthropic foundations and the coal industry have provided support for my transition from professor to pollination management. In 2006 the Berea College National Endowment for the Humanities Chair of Appalachian Studies enabled me to research aspects of the queen-rearing production industry in Hawaii and South Africa. In 2007 the Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute, Eastern Kentucky Foundation, the Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women provided grants funding extension and outreach. The Steele-Reese Foundation was no less important in its contribution to financial continuity from 2009 to 2011. It has been an honor to represent these institutions when compiling this book. Other people I work with have been an unexpected element of this book’s completion and success. Paul Rothman, Don Graves, Don Gibson, Brian Patton, John Tate, Greg Feltner, Robert Ray, David and Susie Duff, Bob Zik, Stacy Billtner, Scott Kreutzer, and Jonathan Crowie have collaborated with me to define a future in which pollinator habitat becomes a standard best-management practice in surface-mine reclamation. Acknowledgments xv The beekeepers keep me: Tom Webster, Gerald Hayes, Phil Craft, the Bluegrass Beekeepers’ Association, the Letcher County Beekeepers ’ Association, Kent and Valerie Williams, Toni Downs, Lucy Breathitt, Mark and Mary Lee, Annie and Richard Broyles, Donna Jo Horn, Stephanie Tarwater, Staci Adair, Ed Levi, Bill Troupe, Kathy Currier, Allen and Ruby Meyers, Teddy and Judy Jones, Richard and Rita Underhill, Kim Lehman, Clarence Collison, Maryann and Jim Frazier, Diana Cox-Foster, Jennifer Berry, Sean Clark, Sue Cobey, Lucy Breathitt, Diana Sammataro, Patty Pulliam and Serge Boyce, Grace Pundyk, Martin Braunstein and Sonia Verettoni, Gro Amdam, Al Avitabile , Marina Marchese, Norm and Andrew Coté, Craig and Charlene Cella, Abigail Keam, Troy Fore, John Miller, Jay Miller, Amanda Miller, the Olivarez family, Marla Spivak, M. E. A. McNeil, and Greg Hunt challenge me to define new insights. In Hawaii, Joanne Murray and the Ocean View Congregational Church (Papa Kahu, Mama Kahu, Bill and Jim Glover) exemplified the definition of ohana. As always, Gabriel Napier, Jamie Horn, Brian Napier, Lyn Hacker, and E. J. Hacker, as well as Perry Amos, Joyce Henderson, Amy and Sara Noland, Ashley Gibson, Emily Saderholm, Tamara Carmichael Farnsworth, and their loving families provide a solid scaffold. Sometimes, memories are...