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Beekeeping: Beekeeping Essential Guide: A Step-By-Step Guide to Beekeeping for Beginners and Advanced
Build and Maintain Honey Bee Colonies, Extract Your Own Honey and Harvest Beeswax with This Step-By-Step Guide to Beekeeping!Building and maintaining honey bee colonies is an empowering hobby and the rewards are plentiful. Besides boosting yields in your garden, you also receive some of nature’s sweetest delicious honey and nourishing beeswax.The art of beekeeping is an extremely rewarding practice and contrary to common belief, extremely safe and easy. All you need is some guidance to get you started and this is exactly what this guide provides. This easy-to-follow guide is carefully tailored toward ‘bee-ginners’ as well as more advanced apiarists. This essential beekeeping guide covers the An Introduction to BeekeepingAll You Need to Know About Honey BeesHow to Hive Your First Bee ColonyHow to Safely Manage and Inspect Your BeehiveHow to Raise BeesSeasonal Beekeeping TasksHow to Deal with Common ProblemsHow to Harvest Honey and beeswaxHow to Make Beeswax Body Lotion and CandlesAnd much more!This is all presented with clear explanations, photos, and diagramsDownload This Essential Beekeeping Guide Today and Kickstart Your Bee-Venture!
81 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2016
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March 18, 2019
Not great, high level overview at best
This book is just ok at providing a high level overview of beekeeping. It’s not specific enough to use as a good starting guide. For example, it doesn’t even explain that you should use 2:1 syrup in the fall and why. There’s almost nothing on varroa mites which belittles this highly critical management task. If someone is thinking about starting in beekeeping, this is a very basic tutorial at best. That said, kudos to the section on melting wax. A lot of books don’t provide that much detail! Too bad couldn’t say that for the rest.
This book is just ok at providing a high level overview of beekeeping. It’s not specific enough to use as a good starting guide. For example, it doesn’t even explain that you should use 2:1 syrup in the fall and why. There’s almost nothing on varroa mites which belittles this highly critical management task. If someone is thinking about starting in beekeeping, this is a very basic tutorial at best. That said, kudos to the section on melting wax. A lot of books don’t provide that much detail! Too bad couldn’t say that for the rest.
March 4, 2019
Practical
Very practical and insightful with lots of facts, written in a simple and considerate way. It really takes some of the anxiety out of it and I'll be sure to refer to it regularly as I embark on this daunting yet environmentally friendly and intriguing venture. Wishing everyone else luck on their journey I definitely recommend.
Very practical and insightful with lots of facts, written in a simple and considerate way. It really takes some of the anxiety out of it and I'll be sure to refer to it regularly as I embark on this daunting yet environmentally friendly and intriguing venture. Wishing everyone else luck on their journey I definitely recommend.
February 11, 2019
Good starting point!
This book is a good starting point if you are thinking of making beekeeping a new hobby. It is an informative, short, easy read that even includes a few pictures.
This book is a good starting point if you are thinking of making beekeeping a new hobby. It is an informative, short, easy read that even includes a few pictures.
April 17, 2020
My review
A good book for the first year bee keeper. I noticed several spelling and grammatical errors which may have been attributed to electronic formatting or poor proofreading.
A good book for the first year bee keeper. I noticed several spelling and grammatical errors which may have been attributed to electronic formatting or poor proofreading.
May 8, 2020
Good book for quick overview of Beekeeping
The books gives a quick and simple overview of Beekeeping. From starting bee hive to Harvesting honey. In short.
New bee keeper can start with reading this book
The books gives a quick and simple overview of Beekeeping. From starting bee hive to Harvesting honey. In short.
New bee keeper can start with reading this book
September 19, 2017
Very detailed and helpful!
Easy to read and understand. Found the information exactly what I was looking for as a new bee keeper. Liked the extra info of DIY projects as well.
Easy to read and understand. Found the information exactly what I was looking for as a new bee keeper. Liked the extra info of DIY projects as well.
February 16, 2018
Informative
4 stars as the writer knew his stuff on beekeeping. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation was rough so that's why I didn't give 5 stars.
4 stars as the writer knew his stuff on beekeeping. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation was rough so that's why I didn't give 5 stars.
June 6, 2018
Decent Novice Book
This was a decent introduction to beekeeping for the beginner. Despite a multitude of editing errors, I found Andy’s book to be informative and enjoyable.
This was a decent introduction to beekeeping for the beginner. Despite a multitude of editing errors, I found Andy’s book to be informative and enjoyable.
March 4, 2019
It was a basic how to book. Not much detail but easy to understand and not complicated.
March 9, 2023
excellent information
Beautifully sequenced with helpful hints throughout. I love the bullet lists which makes it easy to follow. Recommend this for newbies!
Beautifully sequenced with helpful hints throughout. I love the bullet lists which makes it easy to follow. Recommend this for newbies!
November 1, 2024
Beginners Start Here
This book gave a through step by step on how to care for the bees. I would have liked some overwintering tips though.
This book gave a through step by step on how to care for the bees. I would have liked some overwintering tips though.
February 9, 2017
Cheap digital purchase with super basic information and instructions. Not a bad thing if this is your "first" beekeeping book. It's a good book for getting your feet wet. I can't see how anyone who is an intermediate or advanced beekeeper would buy this book. The book really does cover all the basics of what you need to get started beekeeping, but I don't feel that it prepares you for any of the potential challenges. The information is solid but lacking in much detail. You get a mild taste and that's about it.
As I said, this is not a bad book for you "first" beekeeping book, but I've you've already got a few. I wouldn't bother, I don't think you'll learn much of anything new.
As I said, this is not a bad book for you "first" beekeeping book, but I've you've already got a few. I wouldn't bother, I don't think you'll learn much of anything new.
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