
Better Beekeeping
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"There are numerous beekeeping books on the shelves that instruct on 'how to,' but Better Beekeeping is a book that explores 'why to,' which is essential for this ever-changing world of beekeeping today."-Jennifer Berry, research coordinator at the University of Georgia's Honey Bee Research Lab, commercial queen and nuc producer, and columnist for Bee Culture magazine
Backyard beekeepers everywhere agree: a successful colony is a thing of beauty.
Thousands of beekeepers have started beekeeping thanks to Kim Flottum's first book, The Backyard Beekeeper, and they have added to their repertoire of skills with The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook. Now, Better Beekeeping answers the question, "What do I do now that I'm a beekeeper?" This book takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages and learning curves and offers solutions and rewards for keeping bees a better way. Better queens, better winters, better food, and better bees await any beekeeper willing to take on the challenge of having the right number of bees, of the right age, in the right place, in the right condition, at the right time.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Deidication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Growing Your Operation:
- Trading Time for Money
- Buy Preassembled Frames
- Planning Ahead Saves Time and Money (But You Knew That)
- Use It Up, Wear It Out
- Business Goals and Bigger Pictures
- 1. Where Are You Now?
- 2. Where Do You Want to Be?
- 3. How Will You Get There?
- Buying Equipment Standardization and Value
- The Mercy Buy
- Places to Put More Bees
- Breakthrough: Lease Land for Beeyards
- Expanding Your Honey House
- New Ways to Expand
- More Better Honey
- Chapter 2: A New Look at Honey Production,
- What It Once Was and Why It Changed
- How Beekeeping Changed
- More Change: Honey Money
- A Price to Be Paid
- Non-Agricultural Areas
- Expanding Natural Bloom
- Early Nectar Crops, Then Farm Crops
- Migratory Beekeeping for Nectar Crops
- Planning a Honey Crop
- Types of Honey Crops
- Planting Perennial Shrubs and Bushes
- Long-Term, Permanent Plantings
- Growing Your Own, with Help
- Other Cost Considerations
- How Much Land Is Required?
- Working with Landowners with Lots of Land
- Costs per Acre
- More Land: Bigger, Better, More Complicated
- Recommended Plantings for Honey Bees
- Shrubs and Bushes
- Cover Crops
- Wildflowers
- Permanent Plantings
- This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land
- Types of Contracts
- Chapter 3: ROYALTY:
- The Queens We Can Get
- What Do You Want from Your Bees?
- Know What You Want
- Hybrids
- Survivor Queens
- What Kind of Beekeeper Are You?
- What Kind of Beekeeper Are You, Really?
- Buying Queens
- Mated Production Queens
- Uncapped Queen Cells
- Getting Queen Cells
- Acquiring Virgin Queens
- Raising Your Own Queens
- Getting Breeder Queens
- Raising Production Queens
- Random Queen Production
- The Starter/Finisher: The King of Queen-Rearing Techniques
- The Cloake Board Method
- Background Check for Drone Colonies
- Chapter 4: The Working Class
- Preventing Springtime Swarming
- Before Spring Arrives
- Early-Season Feeding
- Opening and Repacking the Colony After Feeding
- Reducing Congestion in the Brood Nest
- Equalizing Colonies, Discarding Dinks
- Reversing
- Making Spring Splits
- Making Summer Splits
- All About Honey Production
- Measuring Growth
- Preventing a Welfare Bee Population
- Pests and Other Problems
- Rallying Cry: Varroa Mite Resistance or Death
- Signs of Hope
- Trapping, Avoidance, and IPM
- Chemicals
- The Rest of the Lot
- Controlling Nosema
- Chapter 5: Wintering Your Bees,
- Winter Rules
- Unnatural Habits
- From the Past
- Take Care of the Bees
- The Natural Question
- The New Nosema
- The Golden Rule
- How Much Honey?
- Too Cold Too Long
- Protection
- When It's Really Cold
- Planning Your Wrap
- Pollen
- Common Sense and Practical Facts
- Summary
- Glossary
- Resources
- Suppliers
- Index
- Photographer Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
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