Keeping bees in towns & cities / Luke Dixon.

  • Dixon, Luke
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Keeping bees in towns and cities

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

London ; Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2012.

Physical description

183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contributors

Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    SF523 2012D62k
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781604692877
  • 1604692871