Description
Book SynopsisA guide for backyard beekeepers who have advanced into their second year with top bar hives.
Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants that rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling top bar beekeepers to produce honey and natural wax while helping bees thrive now and in the years ahead.
Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping picks up where The Thinking Beekeeper left off, providing a wealth of information for backyard beekeepers ready to take the next step with this economical, bee-friendly approach. Author Christy Hemenway shares:
- Guidance and techniques for the second season and beyond
- An in-depth analysis of the dangers climate change and conventional agriculture present to pollinators
- An inspiring vision of re
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"Questionnaire" by Wendell Berry
Part I: Year Two: What to Do?
1. Year Two: How Did We Get Here?
2. Swarming and Splitting, or...If You've Still Got Bees, You Are About to Have Even More Bees!
3. Why Are My Bees So Grouchy? Or...Is the Honeymoon Over?
4. Combining Hives for Overwinter Success
5. Honey — Sweetness and Light = Food!
6. About That Wax That It's All About
7. Year Two: Your Best Resource Is Natural Beeswax Comb
Part II: Smoke and Mirrors
8. What Is Really Going on with Bees? Or...Is It Time to Redefine the Crisis Vocabulary?
9. Are We Really Still Putting Chemicals in the Beehive?
10. Wait a Minute: Wasn't Nicotine a Bad Thing?
11. OMGs!! GMOs!! ABCDEs!! M-O-U-S-E!!
12. The Shamrock
Afterword
Glossary
Index
About the Author
A Note About the Publisher
