Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping (IMM Lifestyle Books) Definitive Guide to Keeping Bees: Management, Control, & Learning to Understand the Honey Bee, plus Tools, Equipment, Harvesting Advice, & Recipes - Softcover

Joanna Ryde

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504800400 ISBN 13: 9781504800402

Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books, 2015

Synopsis

The essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about beekeeping!

• Definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees
• Tools & equipment overview to what you need to set up your hive
• Harvesting advice for honey, wax, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly
• Recipes and ideas for cooking with honey, making body care products, and selling & packaging your products
• Seasonal reference guide carries you through required maintenance steps throughout the year

As sustainability and organic living become increasingly popular, so does a desire to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This book will help you to achieve self-sufficiency and make beekeeping a reality.

Beekeeping is about management, control, and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime—visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun—and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight.

In Self-Sufficiency: Beekeepking, author Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products.

Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping covers:

• Keeping bees
• Basic tools and equipment
• Setting up your hive
• Inside the hive
• Hive maintenance
• Time to harvest
• Recipes and ideas
• Selling your hive products
• Seasonal reference guide

All aspects of beekeeping are explained inside Self-Sufficiency: Beekeeping. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees!

About this title

From the Back Cover

Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honey bee. It can also become an extremely enjoyable and sociable pastime—visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun—and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight.

Joanna Ryde brings her fresh but meticulous approach to all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey, and honey-inspired recipes from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.

Joanna Ryde's interest in beekeeping was sparked as a child watching the comings and goings of bees from an old hive that had long been left unattended in an uncle's garden. She currently keeps an apiary of four hives on her rural property in southern England.

About the Author

Joanna Ryde is a dedicated beekeeper with four years' experience. She currently operates four hives in her Hampshire, U.K. apiary, and sells her honey and home-made honey products locally.

About this edition

• Publisher: IMM Lifestyle Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1504800400
• ISBN 13: 9781504800402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128