First Time Beekeeping

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping - A Step-by-Step Manual to Getting Started with Bees

AvKim Flottum

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This indispensable beekeeping reference—packed with helpful diagrams, color photos, and easy-to-follow yet thorough instruction—gently guides you through setting up and caring for your first colonies.Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to keeping bees? With First Time Beekeeping, help is at hand. Featuring the sage advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper Kim Flottum, this is your step-by-step guide to healthy, happy, and productive hives.This complete resource features expert beginner advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey Bee problems and treatments By following this advice, your colony or two of honey bees can pollinate the vegetables in your garden; produce wonderful honey and other beneficial products; and help your local ecosystem thrive. What could be sweeter?Each book in the First Time series distills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-11
Mått:216 x 279 x 15 mm
Vikt:534 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:First Time
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
ISBN:9781631599514

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Kim Flottum (d. 2023) brought a rich background of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation was finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He taught beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, traveled extensively to educate and lecture, and contributed to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects. He was the author of The Backyard Beekeeper, First Time Beekeeping, In Business with Bees, and Common Sense Natural Beekeeping. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. He was beekeeping’s leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including ensuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACEINTRODUCTION 1 STARTING RIGHTGETTING STARTEDBEEYARDS OTHER THAN BACKYARDSEQUIPMENT: TOOLS OF THE TRADETHE BEES 2 ABOUT BEESTHE QUEENTHE WORKERSFORAGERSDRONES 3 ABOUT BEEKEEPINGLIGHTING YOUR SMOKERPACKAGE MANAGEMENTKEEPING RECORDSOPENING A COLONYINTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENTMALADIESCOMB HONEY AND CUT-COMB HONEYSUMMERTIME CHORESLATE SUMMER HARVESTFALL AND WINTER MANAGEMENTEARLY SPRING INSPECTIONS RESOURCESABOUT THE AUTHORACKNOWLEDGMENTSPHOTOGRAPHER CREDITSINDEX