"The Complete Idiot's Guide[registered] to Beekeeping" has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire process - from information on the inhabitants of a hive and how it works to collecting bees, keeping them healthy, raising a queen, harvesting honey and wax, and storing hives for the off-season.

About the Author

Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer are both expert beekeepers and the owners of Golden Rule Honey, LLC. They run beekeeping conferences and write for beekeeping magazines and other industry journals. Author home: Leominster, MA.

Reviews

When we learn to live by creating a better world rather than using up the one we have, keeping bees without treatments will be easy. Until that time, methods like those that Dean and Laurie describe are necessary, and worth every bit of struggle. It's the best way. Kirk Webster, Vermont Beekeeper