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This practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy.Tags
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Excellent book for beginners and beyond, written by a well-respected Devon beekeeper in collaboration with a Connecticut hobbyist beekeeper. Lots of black and white illustrations and well laid out.
Haiku review:
Stupid bees
stinging us fills no
honeycomb
SMD
8.31.2010
Stupid bees
stinging us fills no
honeycomb
SMD
8.31.2010
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Howland Blackiston has been a backyard beekeeper since 1984. He has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, including the Discovery Channel, CNBC, CNN, and NPR. He is the author of Beekeeping For Dummies.
Series
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2009
- Dedication
- This book is lovingly dedicated to my wife, Joy, who is the queen bee of my universe. She has always been supportive of my unconventional whims and hobbies (and there are a lot of them) and never once did she make me feel li... (show all)ke a dummy for asking her to share our lives with honey bees. I also thank our wonderful daughter Brooke (now grown and married), who like her mother, cheerfully put up with sticky kitchen floors and millions of buzing "siblings" while growing up in our bee-friendly household.
- First words
- I've been keeping bees in my backyard since 1983, and I have a confession to make--I really love my bees.
Introduction: Keeping honey bees is a unique and immensely rewarding hobby.
Foreword: There are many good reasons to keep bees.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
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