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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > Apiculture (beekeeping)
Although the book was originally published thirty-two years ago it
is still highly relevant to those who wish to further their
apicultural skills and perhaps even increase their profits from
beekeeping. It is indeed a book designed to take beekeepers beyond
the basics and is a practical and comprehensive manual,
international in its coverage and appeal which will always be in
demand.
"A unique look at the history, culture, tradition, and
environmental impact of honey
The Honey Trail "is a global travel narrative that looks at
different aspects of how honey and bees are being affected by
globalization, terrorism, deforestation, the global food trade, and
climate change. This unique book not only questions the state of
our environment and the impact it is having on bees and honey, it
also takes readers on an adventure across Yemeni deserts and Borneo
jungles, through the Mississippi Delta and Tasmania's rainforests,
over frozen Siberian snowscapes and ancient Turkish villages all in
search of the liquid gold known as honey.
Including fascinating insights such as: - A bee produces only a
teaspoon of honey in its lifetime - China is the world's largest
honey producer - Honey is only used as medicine in Borneo - There
are more than thirty-five mono-floral honeys in Tuscany.
Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good
biography. Bees have been making this prized food - for centuries
the world's only sweetener - for millennia, but we humans started
recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand
years. Part history, part love letter, Robbing the Bees is a
celebration of bees and their magical produce, revealing the varied
roles of bees and honey in nature, world civilization, business,
and gastronomy. To help navigate the worlds and cultures of honey,
Bishop - beekeeper, writer, and honey aficionado - apprentices
herself to Donald Smiley, a professional beekeeper who harvests
tupelo honey in Florida. She intersperses the lively lore and
science of honey with lyrical reflections on her own and Smiley's
beekeeping experiences. Its passionate research, rich detail, and
fascinating anecdote and illustrations make Holley Bishop's Robbing
the Bees a sumptuous look at the oldest, most delectable food in
the world.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude . . . the accommodating of oneself to nature" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
This book offers everything you need to plant and nurture a garden
that will invite these vital pollinators in, creating spaces
bursting with vibrant colour and giving off heady, bee-friendly
scents from the right kinds of plants. In doing so you will, of
course, begin to cultivate an environment in which beneficial
insects thrive, and pests are controlled, meaning that your
gardens, balconies and containers create a delightful environment
for people as well as bees.
Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in
the beekeeping community, this is the definitive, and most
authoritative, guide to keeping bees in a city environment.
Straightforward, up-to-date, and systematically organized, this
book covers everything you might need, whether you're already an
urban beekeeper or just starting out. It gives practical and clear
information on the essentials that all apiarists need (whether in
or out of the city), while covering in detail the particular
requirements of urban bees. Specifically designed to be
interactive, and easy to use, this at a glance title also features
write-in checklists, interactive boxes in which you can record key
information and dates, and a calendar that tells you what to do
when and reminds you to carry out regular beekeeping tasks.
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