First Time: First Time Beekeeping

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping

First Time: First Time Beekeeping
Kim Flottum
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Paperback
h279 x 216mm - 128pg
11 Aug 2020 US
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9781631599514
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This absolute beginners guide for first-time beekeepers will teach you how to set up and care for your first colonies, from choosing a location for your new bee colonies through natural bee care and harvesting beehive products. This handbook features expert beginner advice for:* Setting up and caring for your own colonies* Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours* The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees* Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey* Bee problems and treatmentsWith this complete resource and the sage advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper Kim Flottum, your hives will be healthy, happy, and productive. Each book in the 'First Time' series distills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.

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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 Beekeepers 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 beekeepings leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimising the use of agricultural pesticides.
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ISBN-13: 9781631599514
Published: 11 Aug 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Quarry Books
Publisher: Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 279mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 128

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