商品簡介
This brief beginner's guide to beekeeping provides basic instruction for getting started with this interesting backyard hobby. Opening with a short discussion of bee anatomy and behavior, the work covers topics such as selecting beekeeping equipment, purchasing bees, a typical beekeeper's annual calendar, pests and diseases, honey harvesting, and bee breeding. Chapters include hand illustrations and convenient task checklists. Head raises chickens and bees in East Sussex, UK. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Vivian Head is an ardent cook, gardener and author who lives in a country cottage in East Sussex , in the United Kingdom . When she is not busy writing, she tends her allotment and kitchen herb garden, which is also home to her chickens and four beehives.
