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Author
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Lifetime of Beekeeping Mistakes covers all the basics of managing successful hives from buying in bee stocks and equipment to record keeping, establishing and growing colonies. It considers the merits of different types of hive and provides clear advice on queens, drones, honey extraction, diseases and pests. The book is written from the voice of experience rather than academic research, and is entirely practical, approachable, and based very much...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Join the growing number of urban beekeepers with this comprehensive guide -- featuring photos, honey recipes, and more -- by Brooklyn's go-to apiarist. Despite living in the most populous borough in New York City, Megan Paska has established herself as a sought-after, professional beekeeper. In The Rooftop Beekeeper , she shares essential advice, plus tips on how to get the most out of your honeybees. Paska shares her own personal experiences while...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From pollination, gardening, beekeeping, and recipes, this guide has everything amateur and veteran apiarists to keep a hive buzzing.
Beekeeping might seem exotic or old-fashioned, but around the world it is becoming more and more common to find a hive or two in urban spaces and suburban backyards. Some modern beekeepers are inspired by the desire to help out the frequently beleaguered creatures, others simply enjoy fresh honey from the most local...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Experience the joy of keeping bees and learn more about hive styles, pest management, harvesting honey, modern uses for beeswax, and so much more!
Are you considering becoming a beekeeper, or ever wondered what it would be like to have your own beehives? Maybe you want to produce fresh honey for your family, or increase the yield of your garden through better pollination. Master Beekeeper Charlotte Anderson gives you all the fundamentals of becoming...
10) Telling the bees
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Albert Honig, a hermit beekeeper, is haunted by the murder of his childhood friend and neighbor, Claire, but while reminiscing about their shared past, he comes to learn her dark secrets and the mystery behind her murder.
11) A Book of Bees
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: "A melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual" (Kirkus Reviews). Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives, author Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that...
Author
Publisher
Fox Chapel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A beginning apiarist's comprehensive guide to keeping bees at home, from basic bee biology to the necessary tools, and more. Discover the secrets of successful hobby beekeeping with advice from a world-renowned honey bee expert. Dr. Norman Gary shares his extensive beekeeping expertise in this entertaining and authoritative guide. Honey Bee Hobbyist, 2nd Edition will help you decide whether hobby beekeeping is right for you and will introduce you...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Beekeeping is both a hobby and a practical business plan that many individuals have taken up in recent years as a viable way to culture a valuable natural resource and have fun in the process. In any given year, an effectively built beekeeping business can bring profits up to 500 percent of your investment according to numerous private beekeepers. The benefit of growing your own honey and selling it to local customers for between $3 and $6 a pound...
14) Beekeeping
Author
Series
Publisher
Fox Chapel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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....
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--
16) The Beeman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
Author
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Very informative and fun... Science, art, bee care, 52 different labs to entertain, delight, educate and inspire everyone in your family." -- A Net in Time Beekeeping's popularity as a hobby continues to skyrocket. And now, with Beekeeper's Lab , you can fill the year ahead with weekly activities from around and about the hive -- including art projects, recipes, experiments, garden activities, and more! Bees are important to local ecosystems, now...
Author
Language
English
Description
From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way.
Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it’s not just our honey supply that’s at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops is essential to human survival. But even in industrial apiaries, bees are in distress, hiving in synthetic and hostile environments.
...Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it’s not just our honey supply that’s at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops is essential to human survival. But even in industrial apiaries, bees are in distress, hiving in synthetic and hostile environments.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Zinnia's last-day-of-school got off to a bad start when she ended up in the vice principal's office for yarn-bombing a statue of the school mascot, but it is about to get a whole lot worse--because, thanks to the incompetence of Bee 641, acolony of commercial, migratory bees escaping from a truck has settled their colony in her hair.
20) More than honey
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive look at the plight of endangered honeybees around the globe and the potential effects of their extinction. The film considers the scientific, environmental and economic implications of the honeybee epidemic while pushing for a profound understanding of bees on a deeper, oft forgotten level.
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