Keeping Bees

by John Vivian

Book Overview

Includes advice on: purchasing; equipment; evaluating sites and setting up; building first hives; management; optimum honey production; fascinating bee lore. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913589195
• ISBN13: 9780913589199
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Worthy Kids
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I owe this book a debt...

This was the book that turned me into a beekeeper, before I ever bought my first colony. The information on basic beekeeping is solid, and the descriptions are engaging.

Excellent fisrt book

This was my first book on beekeeping, and I whole-heartedly recommend it to any beginning beekeeper. I now have some 20+ beekeeping books but this is still my personal favorite. The information on bee diseases is a little old, but the clear concise explanations of all other aspects of small scale beekeeping and his warm writing style more than make up for this. Mr. Vivian obviously enjoys his bees and his affection for them only serves to foster the same in the reader. If you are thinking of beekeeping, or introducing the subject to a friend then this is the book to buy.

An abseloutly fabulous book!

I have read many beekeeping books, and out of all of them, this is the one I would reccommend. It has very detailed pictures and instructions and smoothy guided me through having a successful hive! The author obiously knows bees very well and has a lot of experience with them. He also shares the "do's and don'ts" of beekeeping.

A warm, enjoyable book on beginning beekeeping.

This is the best beginning beekeeping book I've read. John Vivian obviously not only likes bees but has made it a family affair. In such, it is a wonderful book, full of advice, little "tidbits" of experience plus information on all sorts of things not normally covered by beginning bookeeping books--how to build certain structures (i.e., a wax melter), how to extract honey by hand from the comb rather than use the standard extracting machine, etc. As a reader, you come away from the book realizing that beekeeping is an art and one done best when you have a genuine respect (affection?) for the little creatures who labor so hard to make honey.