Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees
Make your home a homestead

Whether you want to harvest honey or beeswax, for fun or for profit, honey bees are the perfect addition to any new backyard farm.

Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees is your guide to successfully caring for your bees. As a comprehensive primer for first-time beekeepers, Keeping Honey Beesincludes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of raising honey bees.

Keeping Honey Bees takes you from start to finish: from setting up your hives, to keeping your bees happy and healthy, to enjoying your very own honey straight from the hive, and more.

With this book, you will:
* Find the best species of bees for your needs
* Successfully collect and process honey
* Learn more about bee anatomy and the fascinating social structure of a bee hive
* Use farm-fresh honey in a variety of delicious recipes

Keeping Honey Bees is your first big step to joing the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healtheir, happier way of life - and it starts right in your own backyard.