Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees From Hive Management to Honey Harvesting and More

Name: Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees From Hive Management to Honey Harvesting and More
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ISBN: 9781578264520

ISBN-10: 1578264529

ISBN-13: 9781578264520

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kim Pezza

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Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!Make beekeeping a part of your backyard farming experience: enjoy honey, beeswax and a more fruitful garden, as your bees will work as hard as you do to make your backyard farm a success!Backyard Farming: Raising Bees is your guide to successfully caring for your hive. As a comprehensive primer for first-time beekeepers, Raising Bees includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard beekeeping.Raising Bees takes you from start to finish: from planning out your bees’ space in the yard and constructing/installing your hives, to feeding and nurturing your new colony, to enjoying…

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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Hatherleigh Company, Limited, The
Publication date: 8/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 134
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction



A Short History of the Bee and Its Magic



What Distinguishes a Honeybee?



Hierarchy of Bees



Ease of Keeping



Equipment



Hives



Pollination



Honey and Wax Harvest



Honey and Wax Uses and Storage



Diseases and Dangers



A Year in Beekeeping



Bees, Honey, and Allergies



Colony Collapse


Final Notes


Fun Facts


Recipes


Resources