Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Homemade Living: Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More


Homemade Living: Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More by Ashley English (Author). Heard the excitement? Beekeeping is back! Neighborhoods throughout the nation have embraced it as a supply of sustainable food and environmental goodness. For many who wish to join the “hive” of keepers, Ashley English has the lowdown on the key issues, from space and time considerations to local ordinances to the fundamentals of buying, housing, sustaining, and caring for bees 12 months round. Plus, get 10 examined honey-centric recipes!

As beekeepers for forty five years we do not purchase bee books usually as they not often supply anything new but Protecting Bees is an exception. The textual content and wonderful photographs offer the promise which you can manage a colony of bees even if you do not have a mentor watching over your shoulder. Typically my husband is so speedy at opening a hive that I do not actually understand what he is doing so I really preferred the concise step-by-step photograph sequences. The bee journals might be too technical but this e book strikes the best steadiness of knowledge for anyone aspiring to be a beekeeper.


I've been ready for this ebook to be revealed ever since I purchased the primary two books in Ashley English's "Homemade Residing" series. I've been researching bee protecting for a couple of yr now, mostly as a result of I plant a garden yearly and wish to give it a boost, but also because I am fascinated by honeybees and want to have my own honey source. I really like this book because it's packed with great info however isn't overwhelming. English tackles the most important lessons of beekeeping and stays on task. After studying this, I definitely suppose I can handle a few hives, and I am really excited to get started. Backside line: when you're eager about preserving bees, read this guide first.

I like this e book, as a result of it is full of fantastic information about the lifetime of bees and tips on how to harvest your personal honey in your own backyard. The e-book is crammed with nice images and straightforward to comply with tutorials the best way to arrange hives and how you can keep them. I am not a beekeeper, but I grow my very own vegatables and fruits in order to have entry to really organic meals and I am contemplating protecting my very own beehive after reading this book. 
Homemade Living: Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More
Ashley English (Author)
136 pages
Lark Crafts; First Edition edition (March 1, 2011)

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