Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Agriculture - Beekeeping

Gunther Hauk does not offer a "magic bullet" solution (there is not and cannot be one), but instead provides the straightforward basis for thinking of the honeybee crisis in a...

Management methods and beekeeping technique are featured in this volume, emphasizing those in Italy and France as the European Union was forming. The content focuses on the development of apiculture in both the New and Old World, reflecting on similarities and differences, and based on the principle that "all beekeeping is local." It features conversations with unique personalities, as well as reports of various scientific and beekeepers' meetings. Descriptions of visits to research laboratories and distinctive European beekeeping settings round out this unique contribution to the...

In the summer of 2016 retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made an astounding discovery at a car boot sale in Sussex. He found a copy of Sherlock Holmes's Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and bought it for 2. No other copy of this legendary volume - the only book Holmes wrote - has ever come to light.

The Handbook is the journal kept by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from active investigation and moved to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he came out of retirement and left East Dean in order to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World War...

Seit drei Generationen betreibt Familie Robson eine Berufsimkerei in der Grenzregion von Schottland und Nordengland. Im Tiefland erlauben die erstklassigen landwirtschaftlich genutzten FlAchen ihren BienenvOlkern den Nektar von zahlreichen Trachtpflanzen zu sammeln insbesondere vom Raps. Es ist jedoch der SpAtsommer, den sich die Imker herbeiwUnschen - in der Hoffnung auf eine reiche Ernte des hoch geschAtzten Heidehonigs aus den Heidemooren.

In diesem auergewOhnlichen Buch reflektiert Willie Robson Uber die jahrelange Bienenhaltung seiner Familie - und gibt...