3rd edition. This is one of the best books on top bar hives, sustainable, chemical-free, natural beekeeping.

A truly lush, radiant enthusiast’s guide that goes beyond the scope of a cookbook to introduce to readers the literal cornucopia of honey varieties available. This book will presume beekeeping experience but reintroduce the basics. It is an insight into the practical, back-to-the-earth beekeeping lifestyle and well as the artisan cultivation of honey varieties.

This 2nd Edition reviews the tools of the trade with complete instructions for building and maintaining beehives. Offers detailed guidelines for all phases of honey production. It also explores theories into the recent unexplained collapse of colonies and its impact on society; and provides new information on mites, diseases and recommended changes in bee medication and treatments.

Tammy Horn has created an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.

The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Savage invites readers to take a new look at creatures that are both familiar and wondrously odd.

Release Date June, 2010.

In a modern age where many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics, natural remedies have become increasingly popular. The Healing Power of Honey provides a unique and in-depth look at honey as a safe, natural, and effective therapeutic tool.

With a passion that gives this exploration of colony collapse disorder real buzz, Jacobsen investigates why 30 billion honeybees vanished in 2007. He identifies the convergence of culprits—blood-sucking mites, pesticide buildup, viral infections, overused antibiotics, urbanization and climate change—that have led to habitat loss and the destruction of the beautiful mathematics of the hive.

The Hive is beautifully illustrated and filled with all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "societies", and how we view bees as a miniature universe into itself.

Presenting the very latest scientific and medical evidence of the healing properties of honey--including that from the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand--Nathaniel Altman explores the broad spectrum of medicinal uses of honey and how these remedies can be used safely at home as well as by licensed health practitioners.

This practical guide covers everything a new beekeeper needs to know, from buying equipment to harvesting your very own honey. With clear, step-by-step instructions on handling and checking your bees, helpful tips and advice on keeping them healthy and productive with a collection of tempting honey-based recipes for you to try, "Keeping Bees" contains everything a modern beekeeper should know.

From the seasons of the hive to the history, properties, and diversity of honey, Buchmann brings us into the confidence of the bees.

Conrad brings together the best organic and natural approaches to keeping honeybees healthy and productive here in one book. Readers will learn about nontoxic methods of controlling mites, eliminating American foulbrood disease, breeding strategies, and many other tips and techniques for maintaining healthy hives.

This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world. No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper.

In The Quest for the Perfect Hive, entomologist Gene Kritsky offers a concise, beautifully illustrated history of beekeeping, tracing the evolution of hive design from ancient Egypt to the present. Not simply a descriptive account, the book suggests that beekeeping's long history may in fact contain clues to help beekeepers fight the decline in honey bee numbers.

Well-documented, copiously illustrated study of the creature that has provided the world with wholesome food and inspired many beliefs and superstitions. Loaded with bee culture and lore.

There are around 16,000 species of bee. Only seven of these are responsible for creating the world's sweetest treat — honey. Combining Ilona's gorgeous photography and E. Readicker-Henderson's engaging text, A Short History of the Honey Bee follows the journey from flower to hive to honey throughout history.

This will be the single resource sought by beekeepers in all settings. Malcolm T. Sanford presents a thorough overview of these industrious and critically important insects. With this book as their guide, beekeepers will understand how to plan a hive, acquire bees, install a colony, keep bees healthy, maintain a healthy hive, understand and prevent new diseases, and harvest honey crops.

Release Date May 13, 2010.

From Los Angeles to London, from Slovenia to Taiwan, honeybees are dying. In America alone, one in three hives was left lifeless at the end of 2008; in France, the death rate is closer to 60%. What is behind the catastrophe? Writers and beekeepers Benjamin and McCallum have traveled across Europe and North America investigating the plight of the honeybee, which is disappearing at an alarming rate.