Beekeeping : How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Interest Further - A Beginner's Guide

Cramp, David

ISBN 10: 1905862873 / ISBN 13: 9781905862870

Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2012

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In becoming a beekeeper you will enjoy a fascinating and wide ranging hobby as well as playing a vital role in the future of our planet. This book will tell you how to start keeping bees in any location, whether urban or rural. It covers everything you need to know in an accessible and clear manner, from choice of hive and health of bees; right through the bee year to harvesting and storing your own honey. As well as providing an accessible, easy-to-understand beekeeping primer for the complete beginner, this book introduces the many other possibilities that exist for a beekeeper including livestock farming of bees, apitherapy, honey cookery and a host of other activities, commercial enterprises, and areas of further study. Contents: Preface; Introduction; 1. Why Become a Beekeeper; 2. Frequently asked questions about beekeeping; 3. Hives; 4. Bees; 5. Spring - Your bees arrive; 6. Spring to summer; 7. Summer - Hive problems and the upcoming harvest; 8. Summer into Autumn - harvest day and post-harvest work; 9. Winter and beyond; 10. Bee diseases and pests; Appendices: Useful information for beekeepers; Index

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Author of the bestselling A Practical Manual of Beekeeping and The Beekeeper's Field Guide and a professional beekeeper for 20 years, DAVID CRAMP BSc gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Apiculture from the Bee Research Unit at the University of Wales (Cardiff). He then kept bees in various remote parts of Spain, specialising in organic honey production, before moving to New Zealand in 2004 to manage a 4000 hive pollination and manuka honey beekeeping operation. He writes extensively for the UK, US and Spanish bee press, as well as editing the online beekeeping magazine Apis UK.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beekeeping : How to Keep Bees and Develop ...
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good