Author: Ron Miksha
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: beekeeping
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2004-06
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 1412006279
ISBN-13: 9781412006279

A million pounds of honey. Produced by a billion bees! This memoir reconstructs the life of a young man from Pennsylvania as he drops into the bald prairie badlands of southern Saskatchewan. He buys a honey ranch and keeps the bees that make the honey. But he also spends winters in Florida swamps, nurse-maid to ten thousand dainty queen bees. From the dusty Canadian prairie to the thick palmetto swamps of the American south, the reader meets with simple folks who shape the protagonist’s character - including a Cree rancher with three sons playing NFL hockey, a Hutterite preacher who ye

Author: C.P. Dadant
Publisher: Home Farm Books
Keywords: beekeeping, lessons, first
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $38.45
ISBN-10: 144373750X
ISBN-13: 9781443737500

Originally published in 1917, this is a wonderful early work on beekeeping and contains much information and many photos. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artworkContents Include Beekeeping As An Occupation How The Colony Is Organized The Complete Hive Accessory Equipment Establishing The Colony Spring In the Apiary Summer In The Apiary Fall And Winter Preparation Qu

Author: F. N Howes
Publisher: Frazer Press
Keywords: beekeeping, plants
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1443726893
ISBN-13: 9781443726894

Author: G.K. Ghosh
Publisher: Ashish
Keywords: india, beekeeping
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 817024644X
ISBN-13: 9788170246442

Author: Howland Blackiston
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, beekeeping
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0470430656
ISBN-13: 9780470430651

Now updated — your guide to becoming a successful backyard beekeeper Interested in raising honey bees? This friendly, practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy. To bee or not to bee? — understand the benefits of beekeeping and whether it’s right for you Build your first hive — gather

Author: Richard E. Bonney
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: guide, practical, beekeeping
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-01-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0882668617
ISBN-13: 9780882668611

Whether you’re a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to: -- Acquire bees -- Install a colony -- Manage a hive -- Take a crop of honey -- Prevent and treat Varroa and tracheal mites -- Learn about Africanized bees

Author: Eva Crane
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: hunting, honey, beekeeping, history, world
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1999-10-13
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415924677
ISBN-13: 9780415924672

This definitive work by world-renowned bee authority Eva Crane offers a fascinating account of bees and their complex relations with both humans and animals. Comprehensive, absorbing, and lavishly illustrated, this scholarly, yet accessible volume explores how bees, honey and other bee products have been gathered and utilized throughout the world. Beginning with the rock paintings of the Mesolithic cave dwellers, readers will learn about the variety of methods used by human beekeepers, the stratagems used by animal honey-hunters, and the multitude of products humans have derived from bees.