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.

In 1923 Rudolf Steiner predicted the dire state of the honeybee today. He said that, within 50-80 years, we would see the consequences of mechanizing the forces that had previously operated organically in the beehive.

Based on careful observation and years of experience, Michael Weiler reveals the secret life of bees. He looks at all aspects of a bee’s life and work and vividly describes their remarkable world.

In a bright and engaging style Winston probes the dynamics of the honey bee's social organization.

Sandy Silver paid a $1 at the County Fair and walked into a small, dark room filled with hundreds of thousands of honeybees behind glass. “I want this,” she said. Over the objections of her husband, she got a honeybee Observation Hive. Her journal burrows deep into the everyday life and death of a world most of us have never even contemplated. This is a gentle and reverent book with a sharp edge.

In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping as a starting point to discuss broader issues.

beekeeper for over 13 years, author Richard E. Bonney owns Charlemont Apiaries in Charlemont, Massachusetts. This book is a companion to his Beekeeping A Practical Guide.

C. Marina Marchese is the founder and owner of Red Bee Honey, purveyors of honey and honey related products. She has been keeping bees for more than nine years. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, she is also an award-winning illustrator and designer.

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.

Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsung—and absolutely essential— heroes of the food chain. Now they get their due in this delightfully illustrated, fact-filled book, courtesy of a professional beekeeper and nature writer who explores everything you ever wanted to know about bees.

This little gem as been in print for almost two decades. Catch bee fever with this wonderful book that explains beekeeping without the technical jargon.

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.

Ancient healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and hive are revealed.

Many beekeepers and researchers blame the chemical IMD for Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out 23% of America’s beehives. Even trace amounts make bees unable to fly back to their hive. Since honeybees are essential to the production of most major food crops, their demise could spell catastrophe. Michael Schacker examines the evidence and offers a plan to save the bees.

This indispensable guide gives you everything you need to set up, maintain, and maximize honeybee colonies of all sizes--either in your suburban backyard or on your urban rooftop.

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.