The Backyard Beekeeper : An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
Author(s): Kim Flottum
The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels.
More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert 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
- Swarm control
- Using top bar hives
- Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey
- Bee problems and treatments
What's New?
- Information for urban bees and beekeepers
- Using your smoker the right way
- Better pest management
- Providing consistent and abundant good food
- Keeping your hives healthy
With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.
General Information
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- : Quarto Publishing Group USA
- : Quarto Pub Group USA
- : 0.825538
- : 01 January 2018
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Kim Flottum
- : Paperback
- : 4
- : English
- : 638
- : 240