Beekeeping for Beginners (eBook)

Everything you Need to Know to Get Started and Succeed Keeping Bees in Your Backyard

Kim Flottum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
160 Seiten
New Shoe Press (Verlag)
9780760379684 (ISBN)

Infos

With this absolute beginner's guide, learn how to set up your backyard hives, select and raise bees, and harvest honey, with the added bonus of bringing pollinators to your yard and garden. You've decided to try beekeepingso where do you start? Beekeeping for Beginners, adapted from the best-selling The Backyard Beekeeper, covers everything you need to know, from selecting the right kind of hives, and finding and bringing bees home to your yard, right up to the collection and enjoymentof the glorious rewardgolden honey. Rewarding and environmentally beneficial, reading this complete and introductory guide is the first step in your journey to becoming a successful beekeeper, whether you decide to have one hive or twenty-five. Renowned beekeeping expert Kim Flottum shares his vast knowledge from years of teaching beekeeping to all levels of enthusiasts for a no-fail approach to bringing a productive bee colony onto your property. Featuring diagrams and color photos, learning what you need to know to establish a vibrant bee colony is fun and easy. The features that set Beekeeping for Beginners apart from other guides: Simplified approachAimed at the beginner, the book covers everything you need to know in uncomplicatedand accessible language, accompanied by full-color illustrative photography. Up to date and organicLearn details on the most current methods that make beekeeping sustainable and accessible even for the smallest yard and urban enthusiasts. Learn from an expertComplete information from a trusted voice in the beekeeping community will give you the tools and knowledge you need to enjoy keeping bees with confidence. This guide offers detailed instruction for: Establishing and taking care ofyour new bees Stress-free hive management Site selection and management Safety and swarm control Types of hives including topbar hives Harvesting,collecting, and processinghoney Keeping bees and hives healthy year-round in all climates Urban beekeeping Smokers 101 Pest and disease management Biodiversity and food for healthy hives Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: New Shoe Press
• Reihe/Serie: New Shoe Press
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 101 • Activity • Advice • African • Agriculture • All About • Amateur • American • apiary • apiculture • Autumn • backyard • Basics • Beauty • becoming a • Beehive • beekeeper • beekeeping book • beeswax • Beginner's Guide • best pets • Bible • brood comb • build • Building • Buzz • CAMP • candlemaking • CCD • Christmas • Collapse • colony • Colony Collapse Disorder • Common sense • cooking • cooks • Course • crafters • crafting • Cultivation • cut-comb • drones • Earth Day • Easter • EASY • Education • equipment • Everything you need to know • Extreme • Fall • Farm • farming • First • first bee colony • foragers • For Dummies • Garden • gardeners • Gardening • gear • Get Started • getting started with • Gift • Handbook • harvest honey • Harvesting • Health • Healthy • History • Hive • Hobby • Holiday • homemade honey • Homestead • honeybees • honeycomb • how to raise bees • Husbandry • Illustrated • Information • Instructions • Introduction • Journal • KEEP • keeping records • log book • make your own • mating bees • Melting • Modern • NATURAL • nontoxic • NOVICE • obtaining • Pest management • Pollen • pollinators • Practical • present • Propolis • Queen • Record • resource • Rooftop • royal jelly • Rules • Rural • Safety • Selecting • self-sufficiency skill • setting up • setting up for • Setup • Simple • Smoker • Spring • start taking care of • Startup • Suburban • Suit • Summer • Supplies • Sustainable Lifestyle • Sustainable living • swarm control • techniques • thriving • TIPS • tools of the trade • Top bar hives • Training • Treatments • Urban • Varroa • what you need • Winter Solstice • with pictures • Workers
• ISBN-13: 9780760379684 / 9780760379684