Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping
Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.

 

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Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping
Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.

 

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Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping

Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping

by Joanna Ryde
Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping

Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping

by Joanna Ryde

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Overview

Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504800402
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date: 09/01/2015
Series: Self-Sufficiency , #7
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JOANNA RYDE is a dedicated beekeeper with four years experience. She currently operates four hives in her Hampshire, U.K. apiary, and sells her honey and home-made honey products locally.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Keeping bees 8

Basic tools and equipment 18

Setting up your hive 32

Inside the hive 42

Hive maintenance 50

Time to harvest 66

Recipes and ideas 86

Selling your hive products 106

Seasonal reference guide 110

Index 126

Useful addresses 128

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