Make beekeeping a part of your backyard farming experience: enjoy honey, beeswax and a more fruitful garden, as your bees will work as hard as you do to make your backyard farm a success! Backyard Farming: Raising Bees is your guide to successfully caring for your hive. As a comprehensive primer for first-time beekeepers, Raising Bees includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard beekeeping. Raising Bees takes you from start to finish: from planning out your bees' space in the yard and constructing/installing your hives, to feeding and nurturing your new colony, to enjoying your very own golden honey and more.

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A short history of the bee and its magic -- What distinguishes a honeybee? -- Hierarchy of bees -- Ease of keeping -- Equipment -- Hives -- Pollination -- Honey and wax harvest -- Honey and wax uses and storage -- Diseases and dangers -- A year in beekeeping -- Bees, honey, and allergies -- Colony collapse.