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Beekeeping for Dummies

Beekeeping For Dummies is a honey of a book on an increasingly popular hobby. For both enjoyment and profit, beekeeping has become a booming enterprise. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery from this pastime. Realize the benefits of keeping bees, from aiding the environment to enjoying homemade honey and wax products. 
 

Beekeeping For Dummies includes detailed, full-color photographs that show how to install a package of bees in your hive, what to expect from your bees (they are incredibly well-tempered during swarming!), and how to spot-and solve-common beekeeping problems.

In this easy-to-follow guide, Howland Blackiston, one of the nation’s most respected authorities on the subject, takes the mystery (and the sting) out of beekeeping. Taking a step-by-step approach to successful backyard beekeeping, he gets you up and running with all the information you need to know.  

• Build a hive
• Establish your first colony
• Inspect your hives with confidence
• Maintain healthy colonies
• Deal with pests and fix common problems
• Harvest and enjoy fresh homemade honey
• Bottle and market your honey

Howland Blackiston covers all the bases, from bee anatomy, society, and behavior, to identifying and healing common illnesses afflicting bees. He also offers inventive solutions to most common and many uncommon problems you’re likely to run into. Among other things, you’ll discover:

• Where to put your hive, basic equipment you’ll need, and how to assemble a hive
• The best and safest way to inspect and enjoy your bees
• Year-round tasks a beekeeper must perform to maintain a healthy colony
• How to recognize and deal with common problems with brood production and the precious queen
• How to harvest honey and decide what kind of honey you’d like to make
• Making products from beeswax and propolis

Educational Brochures

The links below lead to PDF files of the brochures, for viewing or printing. All of the educational brochures listed here are also still in print and available for purchase from the National Honey Board.

Consumer Recipe Brochures

• Bright & Beautiful
• Good & Golden
• Healthy & Hearty
• Swift & Savory

• Honey and Exercise
• Honey for all Seasons (English)
• Honey for all Seasons (Spanish)
• Honey I Love You
• Honey Let's Celebrate (English) *
• Honey Let's Celebrate (Spanish) *
• Honey of a Barbecue (English) *
• Honey of a Barbecue (Spanish) *
• Honey You're a Classic
• In the Garden *
• Sweet and Simple Spa Moments

Brewing Information

A group of fact sheets with recipes and information's in PDF format

• Making Mead: The Art and the Science
• Honey in Beer
• Honey and Homebrewing
• Homebrew Recipes
• Hard Honey Cider

Clipart

This clip art is provided for your unrestricted use courtesy of the National Honey Board.

• Target Market Clip Art
• "Busy as a Bee" Clip Art
• Honey Container Clip Art
• Beekeeper Clip Art
• "Dressed Up" Honey Bear Clip Art
• Holiday Clip Art

Information provided on this page is brought to you by the honey board at www.honey.com 

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