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Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities by Luke Dixon is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities about?

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.**Review"It’s filled with great advice and practical tips on everything from looking after your colony and keeping it healthy to planting a bee friendly garden and harvesting your honey."(DC Honeybees Blog) "An excellent overview of both the challenges and opportunities of urban beekeeping."(New Life on a Homestead) "Walks you step by step through the process of raising bees and harvesting honey with a contagious passion enough to make anyone consider placing a hive out back.”(The Ecologist) "Providing...a wealth of encouragement and com

Author

Luke Dixon

Publisher

Timber Press, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781604692877

Subjects

Technology, Nature, Agriculture