A Practical Manual of Beekeeping: How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Full Potential as an Apiarist

Review

This book lives up to its title. An excellent book to get you started, with plenty for the experienced beekeeper.

Product Description

A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career. The whole subject is, however, often shrouded in mystery and loaded with jargon, leaving many people unaware of its true potential or how to start. This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world. No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper.

From the Author

In many countries, beekeeping has often been regarded as the domain of vaguely eccentric elderly men and women who potter about in their bee clothing with their stinging insects, whereas in fact beekeeping is a dynamic global industry worth literally billions of pounds, euros and dollars and is of strategic interest to governments worldwide. Because of this importance, it offers young men and women (or older ones as well) a fantastic globe trotting career as a beekeeper, scientist, biologist or business owner and so not only does this book tell you how to keep bees but also how you too can benefit from what I reckon is a life changing interest in these amazing insects. If you are wondering what to do in life and are just starting out or have come to a crossroads in your life where you need something more, or if you simply want a hobby that exercises your mind, why not have a go. You won't regret it. It's all in the book. I took it up in my early 40s and never looked back.

About the Author

David Cramp started beekeeping as a hobby in 1991 before spending a year at the Bee Research Unit at Cardiff University. He started a beekeeping company in Spain, producing organic honey, and after 12 years moved with his wife and two daughters to New Zealand to manage a 4000 hive operation, specialising in pollination and manuka honey. David writes for the beekeeping press in the UK, the USA and Spain and is the author of the Beekeeper's Field Guide. He edits the online beekeeping magazine Apis UK and is now starting his own honey bee queen rearing business.