Books

Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees

Harvest your own honey, make your garden or orchard more productive, nurture local food systems, connect with nature, and help bring honey bees back from population decline. Whatever your interest, this reliable resource has all the expert advice you need to keep a thriving, productive hive. Soft cover, 246 pages.

The Beekeeper's Lament

How one man and half a billion honey bees help feed America. This book tells the story of beekeeper John Miller as he trucks his bees across the US pollinating crops and dealing with the effects of CCD. Soft cover, 288 pages.

Top-Bar Beekeeping

Top-Bar Beekeeping provides complete information on hive management and other aspects of using these innovative hives. All home and hobbyist beekeepers who have the time and interest in keeping bees intensively should consider the natural, low-stress methods outlined in this book. Paperback, 192 pages. DVD is 50 minutes.

The Hive Detectives

Loree Griffin Burns profiles bee wranglers and bee scientists across the country who have been working to understand colony collapse disorder or CCD. Readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzing insects we ought to love... and join the human quest to protect them. Hard cover, 66 pages.

The Thinking Beekeeper

The Thinking Beekeeper is the definitive do-it-yourself guide to natural beekeeping in top bar hives. Based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems as opposed to trying to subvert them. Soft cover, 208 pages.