Colour photographs
184 pages
Publisher:
Timber Press USA
Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities features everything an urbanite needs to know to start keeping bees: how to select the perfect hive, how to buy bees, how to care for a colony, how to harvest honey and what to do in the winter. Urban beekeeping has particular challenges and needs, and this book highlights the challenges and presents practices that are safe and neighbour-friendly.
The text is rounded out with profiles of urban beekeepers from all over the world, including public hives at the Maryland Center for Horticulture, beekeeping on an office balcony in Melbourne, Australia, and a poolside hive at a hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Introduction
Boxes of Bees: Selecting the Perfect Hive
Buying Bees: The Good, the Bad, and the Swarmy
Life Inside the Hive: Looking After Your Colony of Urban Bees
Sex and the City Bee: The Life Cycle of a Healthy Colony
The Nectar Garden: From Plants to Honey
Honey Harvest
Winter
Reports from the Field
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
Luke Dixon is a professional beekeeper based in Soho, London. He manages hives for the London College of Fashion, Ted Baker and Kensington Palace, among others, and keeps his own hives in the gardens of London's Natural History Museum. In the winter, when beekeeping duties slacken off, he returns to his first career as a theatre director.
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