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The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys
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Product Description
A truly lush, radiant enthusiast’s guide, The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook goes beyond the scope of a cookbook to introduce to readers the literal cornucopia of honey varieties available. An intuitive follow-up to The Backyard Beekeeper, 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.
Supplementary support for this book lay in the fact that interest in tapping honey’s holistic and whole-health potential dovetails nicely into the natural health and green movements. Also, honey as natural, lower-calorie sweetener has garnered positive PR by those working against the obesity epidemic.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #27474 in Books
- Published on: 2009-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
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- ISBN13: 9781592534746
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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For the Beginner Only
I have the utmost respect for Kim Flottum's work. However, this book does not meet its stated goals. Flottum describes the book as "not for the beginner." Why, then, does he spend so much time and space covering basic material? For his stated audience, there is no reason to spend pages explaining how honey is made, or how to extract honey, or what flowers make good honey. All of this information, and much more, can be found in any introductory beekeeping text.
For the beginner, this might make a useful addition to a starter beekeeping library, after you have picked up a copy of "The Hive and the Honey Bee." For the seasoned beek, this book is completely unnecessary.
Excellent sequel to Flottum's first book
I was initially a little hesitant to buy this book, given the mixed reviews at Amazon, but after receiving it and looking at it, I'm pleased that I did. It's a great follow-on book to Kim Flottum's first book, The Backyard Beekeeper, which gives good basic coverage to hive management practices, bee life cycle and diseases and parasites. This book solidly covers honey production, something that was left out of the first book. I was happy to find the chapter entitled "Guide to Honey Plants" with pictures for identifying common nectar sources, or more importantly, a guide on what to plant in my yard to keep my bees happy with nectar flows throughout spring and summer and make the kind of honey I like. The middle section of the book covers honey harvesting practices (removing bees, honey extraction, filtering, bottling). The last section has recipes for using honey - some look good or okay, some not so much. The last section is definitely not the strength of the book. As a hobbyist beekeeper with a handful of hives in my yard, this book is a great guide for the scale of honey production I am working with.
Great book for all who wish to learn about honey
Great book for all who wish to know about honey and bee basics, beautiful illustrations. However much of the content is well known to beekeepers, so if you are looking for a book with specialist information on honey and its characteristics, keep that in mind
