The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

Kim Flottum

ISBN 10: 1631593323 / ISBN 13: 9781631593321

Published by Quarry Books, 2018

About this Item

The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden by Kim Flottum is a friendly, practical guide designed to introduce newcomers to the rewarding world of beekeeping. Written by a longtime editor of Bee Culture magazine, the book provides clear, step-by-step instructions on how to start and maintain a healthy hive right in your backyard. Flottum covers all the essentials: choosing equipment, setting up a hive, managing bee health, harvesting honey, and understanding bee behavior. He also emphasizes environmentally friendly practices and the important role bees play in pollination and local ecosystems. Richly illustrated and easy to understand, the book is ideal for hobbyists and small-scale beekeepers. With its mix of expert advice, personal insights, and troubleshooting tips, The Backyard Beekeeper helps beginners build confidence and connection with one of nature s most fascinating creatures.

Seller Inventory # NF.FLO.2018.1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631593323
• ISBN 13: 9781631593321
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime for 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 colonies
• Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours
• The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees
• Swarm control
• Using top bar hives
• Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey
• Bee problems and treatments

What’s New?

• Information for urban bees and beekeepers
• Using your smoker the right way
• Better pest management
• Providing consistent and abundant good food
• Keeping your hives healthy

With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

About the Author

Kim Flottum (d. 2023) brought a rich background of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation was finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He taught beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, traveled extensively to educate and lecture, and contributed 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 was the author of The Backyard Beekeeper, First Time Beekeeping, In Business with Bees, and Common Sense Natural Beekeeping. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. He was beekeeping’s leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including ensuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.