Fruitless Fall

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About Fruitless Fall

Publisher Web Link: http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/

The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis

A lively natural history that shows how the foundations of our daily lives—the food we eat, the air we breathe, the gardens and forests we tend—are deeply entwined with bees.

One-third of American food crops are pollinated by honey bees: apples, almonds, cherries, peaches, and plums, to name a few. We are wholly dependent on our partnership with bees, but most people know very little about how they contribute to the larger world of commercial agriculture. Late last year, however, the honey bee made national headlines: nearly one-third of the population, 30 billion bees, mysteriously died from what they’re calling “colony collapse disorder.”

In Fruitless Fall, Rowan Jacobsen chronicles the developing crisis that began in 2006 as beekeepers, scientists, and government officials discovered they had an emergency on their hands. He explores the mystery of CCD and follows researchers as they race to find a solution before winter when the rest of the northern hemisphere’s honeybees risk dying. Fruitless Fall further examines our dependence on honey bees and how our exploitation of this work force may lead not only to their ruin but may have already irrevocably damaged our relationship with the environment.

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About Rowan Jacobsen

Author Web Link: http://www.rowanjacobsen.com/

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America, Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, and The Living Shore, about our ancient connection to estuaries and their potential to heal the oceans. He has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, Outside, Eating Well, and others. Whether visiting endangered oystermen in Louisiana or cacao-gathering tribes in the Bolivian Amazon, his subject is how to maintain a sense of place in a world of increasing placelessness. His new book, American Terroir, was recently named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by Library Journal. He lives in Vermont. (http://www.rowanjacobsen.com/)

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