{"id":531,"date":"2014-04-17T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.6\/ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?page_id=531"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:36:53","slug":"beekeeping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?page_id=531","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Milk-and-Honey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-869\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-869 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Milk-and-Honey-front-cover-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Milk and Honey front cover\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Milk-and-Honey-front-cover-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Milk-and-Honey-front-cover-768x1045.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Milk-and-Honey-front-cover-753x1024.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Milk-and-Honey-front-cover.jpg 1748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Many myths and superstitions surround bees and bee colonies. For millennia honey was the sweetest taste we knew, and health-giving properties have long been attributed to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bees are essential pollinators of crops, and bee numbers are declining for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Many people in all walks of life have kept bees and continue to do so, and we illustrate and refer to bees in our in our language, literature and art.<\/p>\n<p>Rural life museums are interested in beekeeping from a wide range of perspectives, considered here with dairying in this resource by Sally Ackroyd:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.6\/ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MH-front-page.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-553\" title=\"Milk &amp; Honey\" src=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.6\/ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MH-front-page-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Milk-and-Honey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Milk and Honey, interpreting beekeeping and dairying collections in rural life museums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many myths and superstitions surround bees and bee colonies. For millennia honey was the sweetest taste we knew, and health-giving properties have long been attributed to it. Bees are essential pollinators of crops, and bee numbers are declining for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/?page_id=531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531\/revisions\/873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralmuseums.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}