Format: Paperback  

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Pages: 100

Copyright Year: 2012

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Build a honey extractor. Use top-bar hives. Bake with honey. Find your favorite honeybee. Read about all this and more with GRIT's Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey, 3rd Edition. This treasure-trove of bee knowledge has more than 75 ways to get more from your bees. Cover-to-cover, this 100-page guide includes great advice, tips, techniques, instructions, recipes and more to help you get started with beekeeping … or, if you are a seasoned beekeeper, to help you learn new tricks of the trade.

Save money while building your own beehive or honey extractor with simple materials available at your local hardware store. Read how to use a top-bar hive, a less expensive method to raising bees that will pollinate your crops and provide tasty honey fresh from the comb. Honey adds something natural, healthy and sweet to any recipe, whether it's appetizers or main dishes.

More articles include:

• Top Tips for Happy Bees: Expert advice for novice urban beekeepers.
• Bee Byproducts: Honey is but one of the items created by ever-industrious honeybees.
• Go Native with Wild Bees: The humble little orchard mason bee is the best-kept (pollinator) secret.
• The Case of the Disappearing Honeybees: What is colony collapse disorder, and what can be done?
• Winterizing Your Bees … Naturally: There may be snow on the ground and ice on the trees, but your bees are a balmy 96 degrees Fahrenheit inside their hive.
• And more!