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Bad Beekeeping

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Nothing bad about this book, Ron has given the beekeeping world another cracking good read. There is every thing here, history fun information and entertainment. Also a very good read for those people who do not have the insanity to employ millions of buzzing workers, with potentially very hot tails! An excellent book.

The author's account of his career as a beekeeper will appeal to a wide variety of readers. It is a delightful blend of both humorous and sobering personal anecdotes and exhaustively-researched facts about honey. You can't help getting drawn into Ron's life and the diverse personalities he encountered across North America. His engaging writing style makes this book one you'll want all your friends to read.

Bad Beekeeping is not a bad book at all! It is hilariously funny and packed fun of really neat things everyone would like to know. It's all about bees and beekeeping, but all about lots of other things, too. This is such a great book, I started on Friday evening and read all weekend long. Couldn't put it down. Best book I've read!

This is one of few books that I can truly call a must read - if you are a beekeeper. The book is very well written, easy to read, hard to put down. The character development is excellent. I did not want the book to end. The only complaint I have is that the auther appeared to rush the last chapter in order to finish up the book - that is okay. I can't think of a better way to end the book.

'Bad Beekeeping' isn't really a beekeeping book, at least not in the sense of how to keep bees. Rather it is more of a memoir of the author's life during the time he was a commercial beekeeper.

It is very well written and Ron Miksha has a wry sense of humor. 'Bad Beekeeping' is a fun and interesting book with interesting insights.

This is a wonderful story of a young man who practiced the one thing he knew well - beekeeping. With simple, honest writing it is the story about how hard work lets people learn about themselves while working to maintain a commercial relationship with nature. I sometimes thought Ron worked harder than the bees he raised but remembered the energy we all bring to our tasks early in our careers when something is important to us.

I felt strongly that Ron's finely detailed efforts allowed him to move past his beekeeping and rewarded him with the opportunity to reach out and find how beekeeping fit into the larger world around him. The book is simple and raw and I learned much about bees. It is well written enough that you wonder about what happened to those he worked with, family and loved ones, and the Canadian village where he staged his bees in summer.

This was an excellent book. We all have a story to tell that will teach and entertain others. Ron tells his story very well. I hope he writes a sequel.

Instead of "Bad Beekeeping," Ron Miksha's book could have been called "Portait of the Beekeeper as a Young Man," since it is all about his growing up as a commercial beekeeper in the 1970's and 1980's. Working the canola bloom, his summer beekeeping operation in Saskatchewan, and working citrus, his winter beekeeping operation in Florida, Ron had a unique run as a beekeeper that is simply not possible today. Regulations, rules and differing concerns on opposite sides of the U.S./Canadian border made his operation a one-of-a-kind, as well as one-of-an-era.

His story is a roller-coaster ride of great successes matched with spectacular failures. His calcuations and plans meet with the unexpected and that is the fun of his tale. Although no longer a commercial beekeeper; instead now, a geophysicist and entrepreneur, he remains a hobbyist beekeeper in Alberta. As beekeepers, we have not lost one of our own.

Based on other reviews I bought this book for my beekeeping father. He loved it. He just called to tell me how funny/entertaining it was...