Presents a guide to urban bee farming, including instructions on how to select the perfect hive, care for a colony, harvest honey, and maintain a safe colony for neighbors.

Includes index.

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.