Keeping bees in towns & cities / Luke Dixon.
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TextPublication details: London ; Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2012.Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 1604692871 (pbk.)
- 9781604692877 (pbk.)
- Keeping bees in towns and cities
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 638.1 D621 | Available | 33111007108190 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities features everything an urbanite needs to know to start keeping bees: how to select the perfect hive, how to buy bees, how to care for a colony, how to harvest honey, and what to do in the winter. Urban beekeeping has particular challenges and needs, and this book highlights the challenges and presents practices that are safe, legal, and neighbor-friendly.
The text is rounded out with profiles of urban beekeepers from all over the world, including public hives at the Maryland Center for Horticulture, beekeeping on an office balcony in Melbourne, Australia, and a poolside hive at a hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boxes of bees: selecting the perfect hive -- Buying bees: the good, the bad, and the swarmy -- Life inside the hive: looking after your colony of urban bees -- Sex and the city bee: the life cycle of a healthy colony -- The nectar garden: from plants to honey -- Honey harvest -- Winter -- Reports from the field.
Presents a guide to urban bee farming, including instructions on how to select the perfect hive, care for a colony, harvest honey, and maintain a safe colony for neighbors.