The Backyard Beekeeper, 4Th Edition: An Absolute Beginner'S Guide To Keeping Bees In Your Yard And Garden

The Backyard Beekeeper, 4Th Edition: An Absolute Beginner'S Guide To Keeping Bees In Your Yard And Garden

The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels. ?More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert 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 beesSwarm controlUsing top bar hivesHarvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using?oneyBee problems and treatmentsWhat's New??nformation for urban bees and beekeepersUsing your smoker the right way?etter pest managementProviding consistent and abundant good food?eeping your hives healthyWith this?omplete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.?eview"Kim Flottum?s expert advice is a comprehensive introduction to getting started with your own backyard hives.?he book itself is also visually appealing: large photographs, illustrations, and callouts appear on nearly every page."?- Keeping Backyard BeesAbout 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.