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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > Apiculture (beekeeping)
After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges.
Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more honey than anyone knows what to do with. By standing back from their normal lives and working with the cycle of the seasons, they emerge with a new-found understanding of nature and a respect for the honeybee and the threats it faces.
Wryly humorous and surprisingly moving, Liquid Gold is the story of a friendship between two unlikely men at very different stages of their lives. It is also an uplifting account of the author’s own midlife journey: coming to terms with an empty nest, getting older, looking for something new.
The number of people interested and active in keeping bees at an
amateur level has continued to increase over the past few years in
both rural and urban situations. This guide, aimed at beginning
beekeepers, and the only one to be endorsed by the BBKA provides an
authoritative text, along with clear photographs and illustrations.
The book introduces the reader to beekeeping, including such areas
as the workings of the colony, the structure of a hive, how to
acquire bees and keep them healthy and what happens in each month
in a beekeeping year. Each chapter is accompanied by anecdotes,
answers to frequently asked questions and fascinating facts about
bees and honey. The new edition includes new step-by-step sequences
to illustrate procedures such as containing a swarm, identifying
the queen, using a smoker and cleaning a hive as well as more
information on different kinds of hives, disease management and
many other key areas.
This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and
choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed,
installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the
hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation
hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and
illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to
learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.
Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in
the beekeeping community, this is a new and updated edition of a
popular reference title which contains everything the beginner, or
even intermediate, beekeeper could need. Suitable both for those
just considering the prospect and those who are already fascinated
beekeepers, this guide to setting up, maintaining and maximising
bees in the back garden is an indispensable and readable bible of
information and practical advice. It covers everything from bee
behaviour to what to do with honey, and balances all the background
context on bee biology with the day-to-day and seasonal
practicalities of running hives in any location, in the country or
the city, and for colonies of all sizes. Resources include a 'bee
calendar', troubleshooting section, illustrations, a glossary and
details of courses and organizations, in an essential guide for
anyone who is fascinated by the ancient ways of the apiarist.
Now in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical
story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves
" An] engaging, delightfully informative work " "Publishers
Weekly"
"Marchese has given us a lovely gift. "Honeybee" is an
entertaining and useful primer for the novice and honeybee devotee
alike." "Washington Times "
"Surpassing the predictable "how I changed careers" memoir of
finding the good life, Marchese's informative guide is packed with
facts about everything from pollination to harvesting, life cycles
to historical lore, nutritional benefits to gourmet flavor
combinations, medical applications to unusual varieties."
"Booklist"
In 1999, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a
neighbor's honeybee hives. She quit her job, acquired her own bees,
built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in
apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills
to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own honey business.
Today, Red Bee(r) Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related
products to shops and restaurants all over the country.
More than an inspiring story of one woman's transformative
relationship with honeybees (some of nature's most fascinating
creatures), Honeybee is also bursting with information about all
aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey including life inside the
hive; the role of the queen, workers, and drones; pollination and
its importance to sustaining all life; the culinary pleasures of
honey; hiving and keeping honeybees; the ancient practice of
apitherapy, or healing with honey, pollen, and bee venom; and much
more.
Recipes for food and personal care products appear throughout. Also
included is an excellent, one-of-a-kind appendix that lists 75
different honey varietals, with information on provenance, tasting
notes, and food-and-wine pairings.
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Listen to the bees.
Bees reflect human society - understand them and we can get a little closer to understanding ourselves. Humans and bees have enjoyed a close relationship for millennia, and the entries in this book reflect at least two thousand years of fascination with the world's favourite insect. Monarch, celebrity, monk, peasant, warrior or regular Joe, there are few who haven't fallen under the spell of bees and the riches they bring. From superstition to science, cake recipes to self-help, these quotes are a mirror to ourselves - our hopes and fears, our lives and deaths. Not to mention our taste-buds.
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