Homestead Handbook Beginning with Honeybees

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March/April 1985
 
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I wouldn't give it up for anything.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The author made a 26-minute video cassette on introductory beekeeping called "Sweet Rewards" that was originally used in classes at MOTHER's Eco-Village. This tape won't tell you anything you can't read in this article, but it does show you quite a bit, including inspecting a hive, installing a package colony, and even shaking a swarm into a new hive. It's a good introductory film. If you'd like ordering information, write to Sweet Rewards, THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS, 105 Stoney Mountain Rd., Hendersonville, NC 28791.

Resources

Equipment

A.I. Root (P.O. Box 706, Medina, OH 44256) and Dadant & Sons (Hamilton, IL 62341) are the two biggest bee supply companies. Each offers a catalog, some beginner's brochures, and a sample copy of itsmonthly magazine (Root publishes Gleanings in Bee Culture, and Dadant, American Bee Journal) free upon request.

You can shop around for a regional supply company by reading the ads in the beekeeping magazines. (My favorite is Walter T. Kelley, Clarkson, KY 42726.)

Books

Root's beginner book, Starting Right With Bees, costs $2.13 postpaid from the company, while their large reference text, The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, is $14.89 postpaid. Dadant's entry-level book, First Lessons in Beekeeping, is $2.55 from the company, and their large reference text, The Hive and the Honeybee, costs $15.61 postpaid.

Richard Taylor has written three quite good books for hobbyists: The How-To-Do-It Book of Beekeeping (151 questions and answers)... The New Comb Honey Book (the one to have if you want to raise sellable comb honey) . . . and The Joys of Beekeeping (a poetical and philosophical — rather than practical — book). They are available for $8.95, $6.95, and $5.95, respectively, from Linden Books, Interlaken, NY 14847. Add 50¢postage for each book ordered.

And Roger Morse's A Year in the Beeyard ($14.95 postpaid from Scribner's BookCo., Front and Brown Sts., Riverside, NJ
08075) is a good get-a feel for-beekeepingjournal.

Contacts

For classes, free literature, hive inspections, and beekeeping contacts, get in touch with your local or state beekeeping organization, the state department of agriculture, or your state's land grant or agricultural school.

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  • judykrape 1/17/2009 6:41:33 PM

    whAT A WONDERFUL AND MOTIVATING ARTICCLE. THANKS

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