About the Book

The How-to Guide to Basic Beekeeping is a practical, clear and often amusing guide to help the novice in getting started with beekeeing.  It is intended as a working volume, and takes the reader, step by step, through the basic manipulations, and answers many of the questions that manifest themselves in the early years of beekeeing.

Its 100 pages can be read cover to cover, to equip the reader with an appreciation of what they will need to do during the beekeeing year to look after their bees and prepare the resulting products for show and market.

The reader may equally well choose to dip into any of its 14 chapters to remind themselves of the key aspects of the task in hand:

1. How to prevent swarming
2. How to control swarming
3. How to create an artificial swarm
4. How to take a nucleus
5. How to find the Queen
6. How to take a swarm
7. How to harvest the crop
8. How to unite two colonies
9. How to prepare for winter
10. How to prepare honey for market
11. How to prepare beeswax for market
12. How to prepare for show
13. How to move bees
14. How to re-Queen a colony

The How-to Guide to Basic Beekeeping is now available in paperback.

About the Author

Gerald Fisher has been keeping bees for over thirty years. A keen exponent of the craft, and appearing on local TV and radio. He has been a leading figure in his home county of Somerset, running beekeeing courses each year introducing many people to this age-old pursuit. Gerald's experience has been encapsulated in The How-to Guide to Basic Beekeeping.

STOP PRESS.......This book has just been awarded a prize at the 78th National Honey Show........!

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