Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeping Your First Year,

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest by Alethea Morrison Clearly explains everything readers need to know about how to keep bees successfully, from getting your first bees to harvesting your first crop of honey. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Discover the joys of harvesting honey from your own backyard. This introduction to beekeeping covers everything from acquiring your first bees to sampling delicious honey. Alethea Morrison outlines what youll need to know to make it through the first year, while stunning macrophotography by Mars Vilaubi brings the inner workings of the hive to life. With in-depth discussions of allergies, colony hierarchy, bee behaviour, and more, this approachably informative guide bursts with enthusiastic encouragement. Keep your own bees, and enjoy the sweet buzz. Notes Clearly explains everything readers need to know about how to keep bees successfully, from getting your first bees to harvesting your first crop of honey. Back Cover Beekeeping 1-2-3 Essential information to see you through the first year -- from inspecting the hive to avoiding stings Keeping bees is fun and fascinating and stocks your pantry with liquid gold. Who could ask more of a hobby? With practical instruction and personal observations, Alethea Morrison guides you in choosing equipment and managing healthy colonies through every season. Profiles of urban beekeepers offer advice on keeping hives in cities, and Mars Vilaubis up-close photography reveals the inner workings of a busy hive, the anatomy of a honey bee, and much more. Flap Beekeeping 1-2-3 Essential information to see you through the first year -- from inspecting the hive to avoiding stings Keeping bees is fun and fascinating and stocks your pantry with liquid gold. Who could ask more of a hobby? With practical instruction and personal observations, Alethea Morrison guides you in choosing equipment and managing healthy colonies through every season. Profiles of urban beekeepers offer advice on keeping hives in cities, and Mars Vilaubis up-close photography reveals the inner workings of a busy hive, the anatomy of a honey bee, and much more. Author Biography Alethea Morrison is the author of Homegrown Honey Bees. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, photographer Mars Vilaubi, before stepping into the wild yonder of rural Massachusetts together to raise their son, keep bees and chickens, brew beer, sew clothes, grow heirloom beans, and otherwise slow down to smell the flowers of a handmade life. Their experience raising chickens was chronicled in Chick Days. Morrison works as the Creative Director at Storey Publishing and serves as president of the Northern Berkshire Beekeepers Association. Photographer Mars Vilaubi chronicled the adventures of his three backyard hens from their first days out of the egg through their first days laying eggs in Chick Days. He lives in western Massachusetts. Table of Contents Preface 1 Why Bees? 2 What Am I Getting Into? 3 Bee Life 101 4 How Do I Get Started? 5 The Gear 6 The First Month 7 The First Season 8 The First Harvest 9 Congratulations or Condolences Glossary Appendix: Parasites, Diseases & Ailments Resources Index Review Homegrown Honey Bees introduces the basic procedures, possibilities, and pleasures of keeping bees. Spectacular macro photography brings the inner workings of the hive to life, while the passionate, playful text leads the beginning beekeeper through the first year. All the primary concerns and questions are addressed, from allergies, permits and restrictions, and potential issues with the neighbors to hive structure, colony hierarchy, and bee behavior. Beekeepers Alethea Morrison and Mars Vilaubi chronicle the happening in their own hive and share the challenges of their first year, from replacing a failing queen bee to sustaining a colony over a cold winter, as well as the reward of tasting their first honey harvest. Beginners, dreamers, families, and educators will find this highly visual reference an indispensible guide to becoming a confident, happy beekeeper. --Jenna Woginrich, author of Barnheart and Made from Scratch This book is exactly what its subtitle describes it as - an absolute beginners guide to keeping bees. Written and illustrated in full color by a couple who not too long ago were neophyte beekeepers themselves, it aims to first capture readers interest in the fun and fascination of this hobby and then give them basic information needed to get through their first year keeping bees. Review Quote This book is exactly what its subtitle describes it as - an absolute beginners guide to keeping bees. Written and illustrated in full color by a couple who not too long ago were neophyte beekeepers themselves, it aims to first capture readers interest in the fun and fascination of this hobby and then give them basic information needed to get through their first year keeping bees. Details ISBN1603429948 Author Alethea Morrison Short Title HOMEGROWN HONEY BEES Publisher Storey Publishing Language English Photographer Mars Vilaubi ISBN-10 1603429948 ISBN-13 9781603429948 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 638.1 Year 2013 Imprint Storey Publishing LLC Subtitle An Absolute Beginners Guide to Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest Place of Publication North Adams Country of Publication United States Illustrations Yes Publication Date 2013-02-15 Pages 159 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2013-01-29 AU Release Date 2013-01-28 NZ Release Date 2013-01-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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