Beekeeping For Beginners: The Beginning Beekeepers Guide on Keeping Bees, Maintaining Hives and Harvesting Honey

By Erin Morrow

Are you looking into going into the beekeeping business? Do you know anything about bees and how they are related to honey? This book will be a guide for you into the world of the bees and their hives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mihails Konoplovs
• Release date: Jan 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781681270920

Erin Morrow

The Pacific Northwest holds a number of hidden gems shrouded beneath its layer of cool coastal mist, and Erin Morrow is most definitely one of them. Originally from a small town in Eastern Iowa, Morrow left the Heartland and headed west to pursue her passion, gardening; and to develop her talent, writing. Over the past years she has penned over half-a-dozen insightful, detailed and experientially based commentaries and how-to books on topics such as: Organic Gardening, Container Gardening (raised and ground level), Aquaponics, Hydroponics, Vertical Gardening Techniques, Herb Gardening and Beekeeping. All of Morrow's information comes from countless hours of research and interviews with local and regional experts, as well as living the lifestyle herself. She has traveled the west coast seeking out masters of each craft, and gathering the best techniques that she then put into practice to test each theory. To say she is dedicated is an understatement. She's lived the lifestyle. For over a year she converted her half-acre of land into a fully functional, 100% organic, zero carbon footprint, eco-friendly, self-sustaining haven. During that time she perfected many of the techniques that have found their way into her books. When Erin isn't thinking about gardening, she immerses herself in nature. Her spare time is spent hiking and camping on the breathtaking trails of the Pacific Northwest. She has also recently taken up oil painting and has done an admiral job of recreating some of the beauty she experiences on her outings.

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Introduction

Are you looking into going into the beekeeping business? Do you know anything about bees and how they are related to honey? This book will be a guide for you into the world of the bees and their hives. You have to consider a few things in beekeeping, first, they sting. Bees sting you every chance they get and even your family members if you decide to have a bee farm in your backyard or near your house. But beestings are generally safe in small amounts as long as you’re not allergic and have anaphylactic shock when you get stung, other than that, you are safe. The itchiness and hives where it stung you are normal and, yes, beestings hurt really badly at first. Also for keeping a bee farm, you need to do some lifting and they might be heavy so if you have an extra pair of hands to help you then the better.

If it’s your first time to keep bees, you might get overwhelmed when you see them all clumped up together and so close to you. So you better have a quick tour from an expert first before doing it yourself. You need to indentify who is the queens, workers, and drones, identify the difference between broods and honey