Common Sense Natural Beekeeping (eBook)

Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive

Kim Flottum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
160 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-1-63159-956-9 (ISBN)

Infos

With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemicalor human intervention.Today's bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadlyvarroa mitehave become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussedColony Collapse Disorder.Common Sense Natural Beekeeping offers beekeepers a different choice. Based on expert advice from Kim Flottom, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper, this book teachesholistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes:Lessons from the way bees live in the wildManagement strategies that respect the natural intelligence of the beeHive design elements that promote colony health and resilienceCase studies highlighting successful natural beekeepers from around the worldBeekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees' healthand productivity. From housing to nutrition, including pests and diseases,Common Sense Natural Beekeepingintroduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2021
• Co-Autor: Stephanie Bruneau
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Advice • African • Agriculture • All About • Amateur • apiary • apiculture • backyard • Basics • bee colony • bee husbandry • bees • beeswax • Beginner • brood comb • cappings wax • CCD • chemical free treatments • Colony Collapse Disorder • conservation • Course • Cultivation • cut-comb honey • Disease • drones • Earth Day • Education • Environment • equipment • Farm • farming • foragers • gardeners • Gardening • Green Living • Harvesting • Health • Hobby • holistic alternatives • homemade honey • Homestead • honey • honeybees • honeycomb • Housing • how to • Information • Instructions • Introduction • Modern • natural hive management • nontoxic • novices • nucs • Nutrition • packaged bees • Pest • Pesticides • Pollen • pollinators • Propolis • Queen • raising bees • resource • Rooftop • royal jelly • Rules • Rural • Safety • setting up • Smoker • solar wax melters • sustainability • sustainable beekeeping • swarm control • taking care of a bee colony • techniques • TIPS • Top bar hives • tracheal mites • Training • Urban • Varroa • what you need • Workers
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-956-9 / 1631599569
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-956-9 / 9781631599569