Bee Keeping

by Pam Gregory, Claire Waring, Paul Peacock (Foreword)

Beekeeping is a fascinating and rewarding activity and is hugely important to the survival of our declining bee population, as much covered recently by the media. This attractive book offers practical and informative advice on how to get started, how to achieve and collect good harvests, beekeeping through the seasons, troubleshooting, queen rearing and more. It even suggests ways of encouraging bees for 'non-beekeepers'. Written by well respected experts Pam Gregory and Claire Waring, it provides accurate and reliable information on this increasingly popular pastime and is the ideal giftbook for the budding beekeeper.

Genres: Gardening

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2011

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good introduction to keeping bees. There are chapters about bees and beekeeping, what keeping bees entails, the beekeeping year, harvesting honey, pests and diseases, and going further. While the later chapters were a bit more advanced and were somewhat over my head, I think this is a good beginning book. There are LOTS of full color pictures and illustrations that are very helpful. I find that with every book I read about beekeeping I learn a few more things that will help me with my bees. The only downside is that the authors are in the UK, so some of the things that are discussed don't apply in the US and that could sometimes be confusing. But, I did learn some new things and overall it was a good beekeeping book.

[Rhian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have learned so much about Bees. SO MUCH. Really handy book for research, I have no idea how useful it might be for keeping actual bees, but I have so many little details I can drop in now!

[Jade · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent starting point if you're interested in beekeeping, but by no means an exhaustively researched book. It is also very much from the viewpoint of a beekeeper in the UK, so there is a great deal of regional specific information that is not exactly transferable (legal concerns, regionally available forage, certain resources/associations etc.), but that can't really be avoided. It does however have a list of a few helpful websites at the back, as well as some other beekeeping books!

[Cassandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

For someone interested in starting caring for bees, this was an excellent overview and resource to give an idea for everything you need to think about. It’s not super expansive or detailed on specifics, but a great read for novices.

[Annie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great images but not informative.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great intro and overview to beekeeping. Next time I will read one oriented to US readers, only because a lot of the additional sources were UK specific.