Beekeeping
Description
Learn what all the buzz is about with this guide to the fascinating and sustainable hobby of keeping bees. Plus: honey recipes for food and skin care!
Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime-visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun-and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight.
Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.
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JOANNA RYDE is a dedicated beekeeper with four years experience. She currently operates four hives in her Hampshire, U.K. apiary, and sells her honey and home-made honey products locally.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Keeping bees
- Basic tools and equipment
- Setting up your hive
- Inside the hive
- Hive maintenance
- Time to harvest
- Recipes and ideas
- Selling your hive products
- Seasonal reference guide
- Index
- Useful addresses
