Better Beekeeping

Better Beekeeping takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages. ”In Better Beekeeping, Kim takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages, past the learning curves, and the days of early errors. Better Beekeeping leaps the major hurdles of keeping bees today – migratory beekeeping, pesticide polluted fields, monoculture crops, and unpredictable queens – and offers solutions and rewards for keeping bees a better way. Better Beekeeping is the most lucid call to action ever written about land-based beekeeping. Eighteenth-century beekeeper Christian Sprengel once said, ‘There should be standing armies of bees.’ This book is the first step-by-step guide that instructs readers how to make that happen. Even if you’re not a beekeeper, this book is a must-read for environmentalists, food aficionados, and political history, social sciences, and agricultural policies should be more supportive of beekeepers – Tammy Horn, author of Bees in America and Beeconomy: What women and bees can teach us about local trade and the global market. There are numerous beekeeping books on the shelves that instruct on ‘how to’, but Better Beekeeping is a book that explores ‘why to,’ which is essential for this ever-changing world of beekeeping today. This is a must-have book for any beekeeper wanting to think outside the box ” Jennifer Berry, research coordinator at the University of Georgia’s Honey Bee Research Lab, commercial queen and nuc producer, and columnist for Bee Culture magazine.