Books

This book talks for several chapters of beginning beekeeping; the basic hive, different hive boxes, buying and setting up your hive. The author goes on to explain where and how to set up your hive and equipment needed. The first half of this book is a good, simplistic introduction into beekeeping. The second half of

Black and white photographs illustrate queen rearing and queen maintenance of keeping healthy long lasting queens for your colony. Although not thoroughly biologically nor scientifically all the honey bee queen dynamics, this is a great beginning book and middle of the road read of queen rearing. The author illustrates queen cells, feeding, clipping, making, producing

An easy, informative “beginning” book about top bar beekeeping with several colorful photos of varying stages of beekeeping! These authors share insights into organic approaches for top-bar beekeeping with the changes needed in the four seasons to manage your hive. Also, there are several pages devoted to problem solving with help on tackling the issues