Common Sense Natural Beekeeping

Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive

Common Sense Natural Beekeeping
Kim Flottum, Stephanie Bruneau
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Paperback
h254 x 216mm - 128pg
5 Oct 2021 US
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9781631599552
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With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemical or human intervention. Today' s bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadly varroa mite have become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussed Colony Collapse Disorder. Common Sense Natural Beekeeping offers beekeepers a different choice. Based on expert advice from Kim Flottom, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper, this book teaches holistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes:Lessons from the way bees live in the wildManagement strategies that respect the natural intelligence of the beeHive design elements that promote colony health and resilience Case studies highlighting successful natural beekeepers from around the worldBeekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees' health and productivity. From housing to nutrition, including pests and diseases, Common Sense Natural Beekeeping introduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management.
Providing a valuable service to beekeepers everywhere, Kim Flottum and Stephanie Bruneau' s Common Sense Natural Beekeeping takes natural beekeeping to the next level by using the latest honey bee science to inform a more bee centric approach to this ancient craft. Finally, common sense is about to become more common!--Ross Conrad, author Natural Beekeeping: 2nd Edition This book is a fine source of information for beekeepers who want their colonies to survive and produce some honey, but do not want to treat them with miticides. The beekeeping practices presented here are based on what has been learned about how honey bee colonies are surviving without human assistance when they live in the wild. --Tom Seeley, author of The Lives of Bees
Kim Flottum brings a background of more than a decade of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation is finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, travels extensively to educate and lecture, and contributes to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects. He is the author of The Backyard Beekeeper, The Beekeeper' s Journal, and In Business with Bees. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. His magazine platform gives voice to his social commentary on topics ranging from genetically modified foods to pesticide abuse to both good and bad government regulations in the industry. He is beekeeping' s leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides. Stephanie Bruneau is a beekeeper, herbalist, and artist. She runs The Benevolent Bee, a small business selling honey, beeswax candles, herbal body care products, and other handcrafted and hive-derived items. At the Benevolent Bee "Teaching Apiary" Stephanie observes, learns, and teaches about bees and bee behavior to students of all ages. Stephanie has also taught classes about bees and the products of the honeybee hive at Northeastern University, The Cambridge Center for Adult and Community Education, The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, The Boston School of Herbal Studies, and Temple University.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781631599552
Published: 5 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Quarry Books
Publisher: Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 254mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 128

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