First Time Beekeeping: An Absolute Beginner'S Guide To Beekeeping - A Step-By-Step Manual To Getting Started With Bees

First Time Beekeeping: An Absolute Beginner'S Guide To Beekeeping - A Step-By-Step Manual To Getting Started With Bees

This absolute beginner's guide for first-time beekeepers will teach you how to set up and care for your first colonies, from choosing a location for your new bee colonies through natural bee care and harvesting beehive products. ?This handbook featuresexpert beginner advice for:Setting up and caring for your own coloniesSelecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yoursThe most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your beesHarvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using?oneyBee problems and treatments With this?omplete resource and the sage advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus and best-selling author of?he Backyard Beekeeper Kim Flottum, your hives will be healthy, happy, and productive.?Each book in the?irst Time series?istills how-to guidance and advice from an expert on a specific topic into targeted step-by-step instruction geared toward the absolute beginner.About the AuthorKim Flottum brings a background of more than a decade of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation is finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, travels extensively to educate and lecture, and contributes to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects. He is the author of The Backyard Beekeeper, The Beekeeper's Journal, and In Business with Bees. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. His magazine platform gives voice to his social commentary on topics ranging from genetically modified foods to pesticide abuse to both good and bad government regulations in the industry. He is beekeeping's leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.