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Beehives.
Honeybee.
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Crowder, Les.
Bee culture.
Beehives.
Honeybee.
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Top-bar
beekeeping
:
organic
practices
for
honeybee
health
/ Les Crowder and Heather Harrell.
by
Crowder, Les.
Chelsea Green Pub., c2012.
Call #:
638.1 C953t
Subjects
Bee culture.
Beehives.
Honeybee
.
ISBN:
9781603584616 (pbk.)
1603584617 (pbk.)
Description:
xiv, 175 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"Natural hive management for honey, beeswax, and polination" -- Cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165) and index.
Contents:
Top-bar
hives -- The supercreature --
Beekeeping
basics -- Hive management -- The seasons -- Honey, beeswax, and other products -- Evaluating your queen -- Problem-solving -- Raising queens -- Planting for bees.
Summary:
Beekeepers continue to face tremendous challenges, from pests, diseases, pollution, climate change, and, in recent years, from the mysterious and devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world,
top-bar
hives are being used to raise bees successfully without antibiotics, miticides, or other chemical inputs.
In
Top-Bar
Beekeeping
, authors Les Crowder and Heather Harrell guide you through the specifics of this innovative approach to hive management, including raising queens, harvesting and processing honey and beeswax, and planting for pollinators.
Les Crowder has more than thirty years of experience developing best
practices
with his bees in
top-bar
hives. Long-lasting, inexpensive, and easy to build, a
top-bar
hive made of untreated wood allows bees to build combs as they would in their natural environment rather than filling prefabricated foundation frames in a typical Langstroth-box hive. In fact this is one of main reasons why organically minded beekeepers are more often using
top-bar
hives.
The natural, low-stress methods outlined in
Top-Bar
Beekeeping
are perfect for home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in keeping bees intensively and holistically, as well as home orchardists, gardeners, and permaculture practitioners who look to bees for pollination as well as honey or beeswax. -- Back cover.
Other authors:
Harrell, Heather.
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