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I need help! Etymologists, biologists, Google geeks – I need some great identification/texts/resources/guides on nectar, flowers, and bees species/subspecies identification for the South Caucasus. Here are a few of the photos from the field I am working with…but I would love to put them into a better regional context for my honey mapping work. Check […]
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Kars is confused. Light rain and warm sun coax late flowers into bloom and beekeepers sigh in frustration. Imagine that you went to the beach for a week-long vacation, and it only rained. You saw the sun just once – in the rear-view mirror as you drove home. This, in short, describes the honey season. However, while the honey extractors spin dry, my story of honey hunting in the South Caucasus is already more than a full harvest, and it has only just begun. Read the rest of this entry
The. Honey. Road. I taste the syllables and shut my eyes. Memories with little emotion shaped parachutes land on my face. Some are clouds of dark fear, soaking through my cheek bones and wrapping their strings around my throat, making it hard to breathe. Others land lightly, pricked with sunshine, making my cheeks itch pink and my eyes water with happy confusion. It has been exactly 12-weeks-three months-82-days of in-season working, walking, and building Balyolu: the Honey Road – my honey-tasting social-tourism company based out here in Northeastern Turkey.
Catherine de Medici Jaffee is a lunatic about honey culture in the Caucasus. You can most frequently find her jumping on a mountain, running from angry bees, cooking in villages, hitching on dirt roads, or joking with Turkcell about her internet woes.
Cat is joined by Claire, an artist, photographer, writer, and globe wanderer. You're most likely to find her upside down, yodeling from a mountaintop, making tragic mistakes in Turkish, or eating meat for Cat.
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do we have places like this in the USA...I suppose some people have found their niche their haven...
Jeez, Cat, forget the honey road--you're making me want to visit Kars!
Now, if only America could be like Kars, Turkey, where people of all types could get along and ask a
After a realistic post (hust sit down, and suit up) about society, now some positive words about Kar
Cat This is a cliché (my words) but i admire your work, i respect your feelings. You are brave, keep
OK; sounds good. I was just trying to understand the failure, and had only limited understanding of
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Balyolu: The Honey Road
Cat as a National Geographic Young Explorer
Claire Bangser Makes Things
One Sticky Hive