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Keeping Bees And Making Honey

A stunning, comprehensive lifestyle guide to beekeeping packed with images, information, practical advice, useful resources and recipes. Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land, live in the middle of a city or in the countryside, you can keep bees.

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With everything you need to consider before you set up your colony, you'll understand bees and their psychology, learn where to get them from and how to look after them, as well as when and how to tell the neighbours!

This revised edition includes new sections on bees as a superorganism, keeping bees in urban locations, caring for bees during the winter, and more on bee health, varroa and colony collapse disorder.

Environmentally there has never been a more important time to start beekeeping, nor is there a better antidote to the stresses of everyday life. "Keeping Bees and Making Honey" is the ideal companion for you if you are planning to keep bees to contribute to their conservation and to enjoy the benefits of this rewarding hobby.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 143 pages

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