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Keeping Bees and Making Honey by: Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £8.99 You Save: £6.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 595 EAN: 9780715328101 ISBN: 0715328107 Label: David & Charles Publishers Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: May 16, 2008 Publisher: David & Charles Publishers Studio: David & Charles Publishers Sales Rank: 3420 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Review: Review from Kitchen Gardner - It is an easy-to-read guide on all you need know about keeping bees. Beautiful colour photographs. The books is very reader friendly and inspirational. --Kitchen Gardner Review from Country Smallholding - Illustrates the huge enjoyment you will derive from having one of nature's most wondrous creatures residing in your garden. --Country Smallholding Review from East London Enquirer - Set to be a huge hit with all the honey lovers out there! --East London Enquirer Review from Amateur Gardening - This soft back is a great point at which to start getting to know more about the process. It's a colourful, easy to follow read that looks at everything from the kit you'll need to caring for bees in winter. --Amateur Gardening Synopsis: This is a comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping - from finding your bees to getting them home, housing them, collecting honey and using their produce.It includes a detailed look at the history of bees and beekeeping, and an extensive introduction to help you to fully understand your bees and keep them happy.Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land; live in the middle of a city or in the countryside surrounded by flowers, this book caters for every situation, discussing the different types of hive available for every eventuality.It features a detailed section on gardening for bees, as well as comprehensive advice on how to safely collect your honey and wax, with recipes and ideas on how to use them."Bees" fuses contemporary lifestyle design and an authoritative text, to appeal not only to those who already have bees, but to those who are thinking of having them or even just like the idea of having them - it will 'sell the dream'. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Excellent book for someone considering beekeepingI bought this book knowing virtually nothing about bees (they exist, they live in hives and they make honey was about the sum total of my knowledge). I have been considering keeping bees for a while and thought that a little reading would help guide me to a decision. From memory, the book covers: types of bees (not just honey bees), types of hives, the gear required by the beekeeper, where bee hives can be situated, how bees can be purchased, the maintenance of the colony & hive, pests and how to mitigate their impact, the social structure of the bee colony, the way honey is produced by the bees, the 'swarming' of bees, how to harvest honey from the hive and how to store the harvested honey. There's definitely more ... Read More: |
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