Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Make beekeeping a part of your backyard farming experience: enjoy honey,
beeswax and a more fruitful garden, as your bees will work as hard as
you do to make your backyard farm a success!
Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees is your guide to successfully
caring for your hive. As a comprehensive primer for first-time
beekeepers, Keeping Honey Bees includes detailed illustrations and
informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the
world of backyard beekeeping.
Keeping Honey Bees takes you from start to finish: from planning
out your bees' space in the yard and constructing/installing your hives,
to feeding and nurturing your new colony, to enjoying your very own
golden honey and more.
With Keeping Honey Bees, you will:
- Learn the proper use of the equipment necessary to make your
beekeeping a success
- Construct the perfect apiary to minimize your workload and ensure a
productive colony
- Gather honey and beeswax for profit, or to include in your own
self-sufficiency plan
- Use the freshest, fullest honey possible in a variety of delicious
recipes
...and many more tips and tricks from experienced farmers to help you
avoid the most common pitfalls you might encounter.
Keeping Honey Bees is your first big step to joining the growing
movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a
healthier, happier way of life--and it starts right in your own
backyard.
Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban,
suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether
planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers
market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential
information in a convenient reference.
