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Beginning Beekeeping

ebook

 
Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.
 
Featuring more than 120 color photos, Beginning Beekeeping will teach any beginner how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant colonies. You’ll learn how to set up a colony and attract bees, how to incorporate best practices and techniques for keeping colonies strong, and how to troubleshoot and treat a broad range of common hive issues. Along the way, you’ll learn how to harvest your honey and keep your bees healthy and happy.
 
Included in Beginning Beekeeping:
 
·       Practical information on how a hive works, how and where to set up hives for maximum success, buying and installing bees, feeding bees, and more, with recommendations for both urban and rural settings
·       Effective treatment recommendations for dealing with common hive pests and diseases including mites, foulbrood, and colony collapse disorder (CCD), with recommendations for both conventional and organic treatments
·       Tips for dealing with common hive issues such as swarming, robbing, absconding, as well as guidance for managing aggressive hives and tips for keeping a queenright colony
·       Instructions for enjoying rich, bountiful honey harvests, and instructions for processing and storing the honey and wax from your hives, as well how to make products from your harvest
·       Seasonal guidance to ensure your hives return healthy and strong each and every year
 
If you’re new to beekeeping, Beginning Beekeeping is the perfect companion to get you started!


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Publisher: DK

Kindle Book

  • Release date: March 14, 2017

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781465458193
  • File size: 144532 KB
  • Release date: March 14, 2017

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781465458193
  • File size: 144532 KB
  • Release date: March 14, 2017

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

 
Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.
 
Featuring more than 120 color photos, Beginning Beekeeping will teach any beginner how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant colonies. You’ll learn how to set up a colony and attract bees, how to incorporate best practices and techniques for keeping colonies strong, and how to troubleshoot and treat a broad range of common hive issues. Along the way, you’ll learn how to harvest your honey and keep your bees healthy and happy.
 
Included in Beginning Beekeeping:
 
·       Practical information on how a hive works, how and where to set up hives for maximum success, buying and installing bees, feeding bees, and more, with recommendations for both urban and rural settings
·       Effective treatment recommendations for dealing with common hive pests and diseases including mites, foulbrood, and colony collapse disorder (CCD), with recommendations for both conventional and organic treatments
·       Tips for dealing with common hive issues such as swarming, robbing, absconding, as well as guidance for managing aggressive hives and tips for keeping a queenright colony
·       Instructions for enjoying rich, bountiful honey harvests, and instructions for processing and storing the honey and wax from your hives, as well how to make products from your harvest
·       Seasonal guidance to ensure your hives return healthy and strong each and every year
 
If you’re new to beekeeping, Beginning Beekeeping is the perfect companion to get you started!


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    DK

    Kindle Book
    Release date: March 14, 2017

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781465458193
    File size: 144532 KB
    Release date: March 14, 2017

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781465458193
    File size: 144532 KB
    Release date: March 14, 2017

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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