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Articles & Books From Howland Blackiston
Get in on the ground level of the next artisan food obsession—honey! Just like wine, cheese, beer or coffee, honey is an artisan food with much to be discovered. Whether you're interested in tasting the various varietals, using it as a cure, or harvesting your own, Honey For Dummies is the guide for you. This book reveals the deep and complex world of honey, its diverse floral sources, and its surprising range of colors, smells, and flavors.
Article / Updated 09-23-2020
The Flow hive, shown in the figure, is an award-winning invention of Australian father-and-son team Stuart and Cedar Anderson. It’s basically an 8-frame Langstroth hive, but they invented a patented way of harvesting the surplus honey from the hive without having to smoke the bees and remove the honey supers.There is no slicing cappings off the comb, no spinning the frames, nor is there a need for an extractor.
Article / Updated 09-23-2020
With all the different beehives to choose from, how do you decide? Maybe you just like the look of one hive over another. A better way to decide is to determine the primary reason you are beekeeping and select the hive best suited for that reason. This table will help you make these decisions.
Hive Checklist — Which Hive Meets Your Needs?
Article / Updated 09-23-2020
For beekeepers, it's all about the queen bee: Is your queen healthy? Is your queen still in the hive? Is she safe? But, what differentiates the queen been from the other honey bees? What makes a queen bee a queen? © Konstantin Gushcha / Shutterstock.comAll female bees start out the same way: from a fertilized egg.
Article / Updated 09-23-2020
The Apimaye beehive represents the next generation of the Langstroth-style beehive. Its impressive, award-winning design was engineered in Turkey and is now available in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe.It’s a thoughtfully conceived concept, with all kinds of built-in features as standard offerings. But what’s really important about these hives is that they are very well insulated.
Article / Updated 09-23-2020
Typically, beekeepers are able to harvest 40 or more pounds of honey from each of their hives. That’s a lot of honey. Unless you eat a whole lot of toast, you may want to consider other ways to use your copious crop. Honey is not only wholesome, delicious, sweet, and fat-free, but it’s also incredibly versatile.
The single best and most comprehensive guide for prospective, new and experienced hobbyist beekeepersBeekeeping For Dummies, 5th Edition, is one of the most popular titles in the For Dummies series available today. Including the latest information regarding every aspect of backyard beekeeping and honey production, this book describes how to get started, how to care for and safely handle bees, and how to maintain healthy and productive colonies.
Building Beehives For Dummies (9781119544388) was previously published as Building Beehives For Dummies (9781118312940). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. The easy way to build your own beehives and beekeeping equipment Building Beehives For Dummies is the follow-up book to the bestselling Beekeeping For Dummies.
Article / Updated 03-21-2017
Where do you find all the neat stuff you need to become a beekeeper? Where do you buy bees? Start with a search on the web for "beekeeping supplies." Maybe you'll get lucky and find a listing for a local supplier who sells supplies out of his or her garage. That's kind of cool because it gives you face-to-face access to your own personal mentor.
Article / Updated 03-21-2017
Are you ready to curl up with a good article about honey bees? A bunch of publications are worth a read. Subscribing to one or more of them provides you with ongoing sources of useful beekeeping tips and practical information. And the ads in these journals are a great way to learn about new beekeeping toys and gadgets.