Jennie Durant: Author of "Bitter Honey"

When:             27 October 2026

                         7:00PM - 9:00PM

Jennie Durant is a writer and researcher who explores the connections among bees, agriculture, food, and the environment. She is the author of Bitter Honey: Big Agriculture’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them, published by Island Press/Princeton University Press.

Jennie holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where she studied commercial beekeeping and agricultural systems, and previously worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Grist, LitHub, Live Science, Glamour, the San Francisco Chronicle, and HuffPost. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

In Bitter Honey, Jennie Durant takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the human and ecological cost of industrial farming for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who depend on them. Bees today face a gauntlet of threats: parasites and disease, pesticide exposure, and climate extremes—all magnified by Big Ag. Beekeepers, meanwhile, endure grueling practices just to survive, often losing half their hives each year. 

6:30PM Open Question Time

7:00PM Speaker 

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