Keeping Bees and Making Honey |
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Author:
Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum
By David & Charles Publishers
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £6.21
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Review
Review from Kitchen Gardner - It is an easy-to-read guide on all you need know about keeping bees. Beautiful colour photographs. The books is very reader friendly and inspirational. --Kitchen Gardner
Review from Country Smallholding - Illustrates the huge enjoyment you will derive from having one of nature's most wondrous creatures residing in your garden. --Country Smallholding
Review from East London Enquirer - Set to be a huge hit with all the honey lovers out there! --East London Enquirer
Review from Amateur Gardening - This soft back is a great point at which to start getting to know more about the process. It's a colourful, easy to follow read that looks at everything from the kit you'll need to caring for bees in winter. --Amateur Gardening
Synopsis
This is a comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping - from finding your bees to getting them home, housing them, collecting honey and using their produce.It includes a detailed look at the history of bees and beekeeping, and an extensive introduction to help you to fully understand your bees and keep them happy.Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land; live in the middle of a city or in the countryside surrounded by flowers, this book caters for every situation, discussing the different types of hive available for every eventuality.It features a detailed section on gardening for bees, as well as comprehensive advice on how to safely collect your honey and wax, with recipes and ideas on how to use them."Bees" fuses contemporary lifestyle design and an authoritative text, to appeal not only to those who already have bees, but to those who are thinking of having them or even just like the idea of having them - it will 'sell the dream'.
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Excellent book for someone considering beekeeping, 2008-06-11
I bought this book knowing virtually nothing about bees (they exist, they live in hives and they make honey was about the sum total of my knowledge).
I have been considering keeping bees for a while and thought that a little reading would help guide me to a decision.
From memory, the book covers: types of bees (not just honey bees), types of hives, the gear required by the beekeeper, where bee hives can be situated, how bees can be purchased, the maintenance of the colony & hive, pests and how to mitigate their impact, the social structure of the bee colony, the way honey is produced by the bees, the 'swarming' of bees, how to harvest honey from the hive and how to store the harvested honey. There's definitely more - my memory just isn't good enough.
The book material is pitched at the level of the layman/novice. In particular areas the book is usefully pratical and in-depth e.g. There are guides to setting up the hive and putting in the colony, checking the colony's health after setting up your apiary, harvesting the honey, controlling swarming and spring-cleaning the hive. There are also little practical tips throughout that will obviously help you avoid common mistakes e.g. Approach your hive from the side, approaching the front entrance will only wind-up your bees!
To sum up. I thought the book was excellent and was written at exactly the right level for someone in my position. It increased my knowledge greatly (admittedly i started with none), it informed me that i have a more-than-reasonable environment for a hive, it convinced me that i'd be capable of performing the duties required to keep the bees happy and healthy, it told me how to go about performing the duties required, it told me what equipment i'd need to keep bees and finally it was a thoroughly pleasant read into the bargain.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 595
EAN: 9780715328101
ISBN: 0715328107
Label: David & Charles Publishers
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2008-05-16
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Studio: David & Charles Publishers |
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