Product Description

Beekeeping can provide you with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career. This book helps you to find out how to start and develop beekeeping as a business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14725 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 6.70" w x 8.30" l, 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

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Review
This book lives up to its title. An excellent book to get you started, with plenty for the experienced beekeeper. --Smallholder March 2009

From the Author
In many countries, beekeeping has often been regarded as the domain of vaguely eccentric elderly men and women who potter about in their bee clothing with their stinging insects, whereas in fact beekeeping is a dynamic global industry worth literally billions of pounds, euros and dollars and is of strategic interest to governments worldwide. Because of this importance, it offers young men and women (or older ones as well) a fantastic globe trotting career as a beekeeper, scientist, biologist or business owner and so not only does this book tell you how to keep bees but also how you too can benefit from what I reckon is a life changing interest in these amazing insects. If you are wondering what to do in life and are just starting out or have come to a crossroads in your life where you need something more, or if you simply want a hobby that exercises your mind, why not have a go. You won't regret it. It's all in the book. I took it up in my early 40s and never looked back.

About the Author
David Cramp started beekeeping as a hobby in 1991 before spending a year at the Bee Research Unit at Cardiff University. He started a beekeeping company in Spain, producing organic honey, and after 12 years moved with his wife and two daughters to New Zealand to manage a 4000 hive operation, specialising in pollination and manuka honey. David writes for the beekeeping press in the UK, the USA and Spain and is the author of the Beekeeper's Field Guide. He edits the online beekeeping magazine Apis UK and is now starting his own honey bee queen rearing business.