Building Beehives For Dummies, Howland Blackiston
Building Beehives For Dummies, Howland Blackiston
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Building Beehives For Dummies

Author: Howland Blackiston

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/28/2020


Synopsis

The easy way to build your own beehives and beekeeping equipment

Building Beehives For Dummies is the follow-up book to the bestselling Beekeeping For Dummies. It provides everything you need to learn how to build some of the world's most popular hives and beekeeping accessories. For each design the book includes a detailed materials list (what lumber, hardware, and fasteners you'll need) and step-by-step building instructions. There are over a dozen plans in all, including the traditional Langstroth hive, the eight frame garden hive, designs for elevated hive stands, the Warre hive, screened bottom board, the Kenya top-bar hive, four-frame observation hive, hive top feeders, and more. The book contains introductory chapters that teach you the basic carpentry skills necessary to build any of the plans in the book.

Whether you are a new beekeeper or a seasoned ol'timer, Building Beehives For Dummies provides you with the information you need to plan and succeed at building beehives (and other cool accessories). You'll discover what type of hive to build, hints on how to maintain your equipment, what bees need to stay happy and healthy, where to locate your hive, and much more.

About Howland Blackiston

Howland Blackiston has been a backyard beekeeper since 1984. The author of Building Beehives For Dummies and Beekeeping For Dummies, he has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, including the Discovery Channel, CNBC, CNN, and NPR.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

A while back I did a post on Beekeeping which is a good companion piece to this article. If you are reading this post on a different website it's at [URL not allowed] For that article I reviewed Beekeeping For Dummies. This book is a sequel. The book I read to research this post wa......more

Goodreads review by Floyd

While it's a decent book on constructing beehives the author never goes into much depth about the equipment needed. Many of these hives he has in the book can be purchased commercially much cheaper than building his designs.......more

Goodreads review by Nemo

It is ok for the beginner- solid info - mainly covers Langstroth which is mostly used in US - need more info than this book......more