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Beekeeping for Beginners: Everything you Need to Know to Get Started and Succeed Keeping Bees in Your Backyard
With this absolute beginner’s guide, learn how to set up your backyard hives, select and raise bees, and harvest honey, with the added bonus of bringing pollinators to your yard and garden.
You’ve decided to try beekeeping—so where do you start? Beekeeping for Beginners , adapted from the best-selling The Backyard Beekeeper , covers everything you need to know, from selecting the right kind of hives, and finding and bringing bees home to your yard, right up to the collection and enjoyment of the glorious reward—golden honey. Rewarding and environmentally beneficial, reading this complete and introductory guide is the first step in your journey to becoming a successful beekeeper, whether you decide to have one hive or twenty-five.
Renowned beekeeping expert Kim Flottum shares his vast knowledge from years of teaching beekeeping to all levels of enthusiasts for a no-fail approach to bringing a productive bee colony onto your property. Featuring diagrams and color photos , learning what you need to know to establish a vibrant bee colony is fun and easy.
The features that set Beekeeping for Beginners apart from other
This guide offers detailed instruction
Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.
You’ve decided to try beekeeping—so where do you start? Beekeeping for Beginners , adapted from the best-selling The Backyard Beekeeper , covers everything you need to know, from selecting the right kind of hives, and finding and bringing bees home to your yard, right up to the collection and enjoyment of the glorious reward—golden honey. Rewarding and environmentally beneficial, reading this complete and introductory guide is the first step in your journey to becoming a successful beekeeper, whether you decide to have one hive or twenty-five.
Renowned beekeeping expert Kim Flottum shares his vast knowledge from years of teaching beekeeping to all levels of enthusiasts for a no-fail approach to bringing a productive bee colony onto your property. Featuring diagrams and color photos , learning what you need to know to establish a vibrant bee colony is fun and easy.
The features that set Beekeeping for Beginners apart from other
This guide offers detailed instruction
Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.
160 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
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August 2, 2022
A knowledgeable, thorough guide to starting a hive, keeping them healthy and managing hives from your own backyard.
It was such an interesting read. I had no idea how beekeeping works and learned so much from this guide. It's easy to read and understand and definitely a book that new beekeepers will want to have on hand!
It was such an interesting read. I had no idea how beekeeping works and learned so much from this guide. It's easy to read and understand and definitely a book that new beekeepers will want to have on hand!
August 17, 2022
Thanks to NetGalley, the Author, and the publisher Quarto Publishing Group for this ARC! I have always been fascinated by bees, and while I cannot become a beekeeper yet due to living circumstances, this book caught my attention and I am so glad I read it! I learned a lot about caring for and keeping bees and will use this book as a reference for when I finally get the chance to keep bees of my own one day. Informative, well written, and filled with diagrams and images, this book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in beekeeping or who would like a reference.
September 17, 2022
A comprehensive introduction to the keeping of bees for the production of honey. The author is an experienced beekeeper and he shares his knowledge to advise anyone hoping to have a happy, healthy hive of bees. The information is very thorough with plenty of photographs and illustrations to support his guidance. The three chapters focus on 1. How to get started; 2. All about bees; and 3. How to manage your beekeeping. Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
October 27, 2022
What a fascinating guide this is. It goes into what you will need to maintain a successful hive and, despite being a beginner’s book, as well as not overly long, it goes into considerable detail with many photos and diagrams.
There’s a lot of knowledge within these pages and this a recommendation for those interested in tending their own.
Temporary PDF kindly provided by New Shoe Press (Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry) and NetGalley. Opinions shared are my own.
There’s a lot of knowledge within these pages and this a recommendation for those interested in tending their own.
Temporary PDF kindly provided by New Shoe Press (Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry) and NetGalley. Opinions shared are my own.
March 21, 2025
Contained good information for beginning beekeepers. If you’re not planning on using Langstroth hives, I wouldn’t bother with this book. Other hive types are briefly mentioned but are definitely not the focus. Information felt irrelevant because of that. The pest management section felt very redundant. I ended up skimming a lot of pages.
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