Common Sense Natural Beekeeping: Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
Description
With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemical or human intervention.
Today’s bees face unprecedented challenges. Chemical treatments for pests like the ubiquitous and deadly varroa mite have become standard even as resistance to such treatments grows and evidence suggests the chemical treatments themselves are contributing to the widely discussed Colony Collapse Disorder.
Common Sense Natural Beekeeping offers beekeepers a different choice. Based on expert advice from Kim Flottom, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine and best-selling author of The Backyard Beekeeper, this book teaches holistic, sensible alternatives to conventional apiary practices, and includes:
- Lessons from the way bees live in the wild
- Management strategies that respect the natural intelligence of the bee
- Hive design elements that promote colony health and resilience
- Case studies highlighting successful natural beekeepers from around the world
Beekeepers today have myriad choices to make that affect their bees’ health and productivity. From housing to nutrition, including pests and diseases, Common Sense Natural Beekeeping introduces sustainable alternatives for natural hive management.
Praise for Common Sense Natural Beekeeping: Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
Providing a valuable service to beekeepers everywhere, Kim Flottum and Stephanie Bruneau’s Common Sense Natural Beekeeping takes natural beekeeping to the next level by using the latest honey bee science to inform a more bee centric approach to this ancient craft. Finally, common sense is about to become more common!—Ross Conrad, author Natural Beekeeping: 2nd Edition
This book is a fine source of information for beekeepers who want their colonies to survive and produce some honey, but do not want to treat them with miticides. The beekeeping practices presented here are based on what has been learned about how honey bee colonies are surviving without human assistance when they live in the wild.—Tom Seeley, author of The Lives of Bees