The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook ─ A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking With Natural Honeys

In The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook, seasoned expert, Kim Flottum explains the process of moving honey from beehive to honey house and how to reveal and extract it so none of the finer aromas, tastes, or colors are bruised, burned, or broken. You’ll learn which crops produce the best tasting honey and which to avoid. It also provides instructions for careful, considerate storing.

Lush, full-color photographs take you from flower bud to bee hive, then onward through the mechanics and choreography of the honey harvest.

More than 50 delicious, healthy recipes for both sweet and savory dishes featuring honey.

Kim Flottum has been the editor of Bee Culture magazine for more than 20 years. He is the author of The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard or Garden. He edited (with Dr. Shimanuki and Ann Harman) the popular 41st edition of the ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, the bible of U.S. beekeeping. Kim blogs about the beekeeping world, plus he is a regular columnist for the U.K. beekeeping magazine The Beekeeper's Quarterly. He also contributes to Bee Craft magazine in the U.K., Farming Magazine, Homestead.org, and Back Home magazine in the U.S. He and his wife Kathy are hobby beekeepers, manage an Observation Hive in the local Library, and eat well from their backyard garden.