Thinking Outside The Box: A Beginner's Guide To Topbar Beekeeping - Softcover

April Kirkendoll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966778499 ISBN 13: 9780966778496

Publisher: Lysmata Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

The simple -- and odd-shaped -- topbar hive is both ancient technology and newfangled trend.

The "back-to-basics" hive fosters cooperation with honeybees with its less intensive style of beekeeping, while its nonstandard, easily customizable design leaves room for innovation, especially useful in light of modern day hardships of imported pests, plagues, pesticides, and environmental alterations.

This entertaining, easy to read guide discusses topbar hives and their management -- both the benefits AND the drawbacks -- in a way that's easily understood by those with limited hands-on experience with bees, while also exploring the differences in management for those experienced with standard hives.

About this title

About the Author

April Kirkendoll is a biologist, professional aquaculturist, and marine aquarist. Her hobbies include gardening, hydroponics, aquaponics, and, of course, beekeeping.

She also has spent over 30 years studying cancer in order to more thoroughly understand this odd, highly variable disease. In 2004, she wrote "The End of Cancer: Seeking A New Understanding To Defeat The Enemy Within", which summarizes and rethinks a century's worth of cancer data for nonscientists.

She lives in Florida with her husband and a whole menagerie of animals that functions as their kids.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lysmata Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966778499
• ISBN 13: 9780966778496
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Illustrator: Bee Happy Graphics LLC
• Number of pages: 256