Beekeeping A Beginners Guide by David Cramp

Beekeeping A Beginners Guide by David Cramp

In becoming a beekeeper you will enjoy a fascinating and wide ranging hobby as well as playing a vital role in the future of our planet. This book will tell you how to start keeping bees in any location, whether urban or rural. It covers everything you need to know in an accessible and clear manner, from choice of hive and health of bees; right through the bee year to harvesting and storing your own honey. As well as providing an accessible, easy-to-understand beekeeping primer for the complete beginner, this book introduces the many other possibilities that exist for a beekeeper including livestock farming of bees, apitherapy, honey cookery and a host of other activities, commercial enterprises, and areas of further study. Contents: Preface; Introduction; 1. Why Become a Beekeeper; 2. Frequently asked questions about beekeeping; 3. Hives; 4. Bees; 5. Spring - Your bees arrive; 6. Spring to summer; 7. Summer - Hive problems and the upcoming harvest; 8. Summer into Autumn - harvest day and post-harvest work; 9. Winter and beyond; 10. Bee diseases and pests; Appendices: Useful information for beekeepers; Index

'Everything you need to know, from reasons to become a beekeeper, detailed sections on what you need to set up a hive and what to do when your bees arrive.. a fascinating insight into this buzzing world!' Choice Magazine 'This informative manual covers the basics...' Daily Mail 'This new book is, currently the best offering to date for aspiring beekeepers. I would recommend that you get this book: it is valuable as a swarm of bees in June.' Garden Illustrated 'Has everything you need when starting out. Nicely illustrated and written in a down-to-earth style.' Countryside magazine

Author of the bestselling A Practical Manual of Beekeeping and The Beekeeper's Field Guide and a professional beekeeper for 20 years, DAVID CRAMP BSc gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Apiculture from the Bee Research Unit at the University of Wales (Cardiff). He then kept bees in various remote parts of Spain, specialising in organic honey production, before moving to New Zealand in 2004 to manage a 4000 hive pollination and manuka honey beekeeping operation. He writes extensively for the UK, US and Spanish bee press, as well as editing the online beekeeping magazine Apis UK.

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ISBN 13	9781905862870
ISBN 10	1905862873
Title	Beekeeping A Beginners Guide
Author	David Cramp
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2012-06-27
Number of pages	192
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