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The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys Paperback – January 1, 2009

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A truly lush, radiant enthusiast’s guide, The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook goes beyond the scope of a cookbook to introduce to readers the literal cornucopia of honey varieties available. An intuitive follow-up to The Backyard Beekeeper, this book will presume beekeeping experience but reintroduce the basics. It is an insight into the practical, back-to-the-earth beekeeping lifestyle and well as the artisan cultivation of honey varieties.

Supplementary support for this book lay in the fact that interest in tapping honey’s holistic and whole-health potential dovetails nicely into the natural health and green movements. Also, honey as natural, lower-calorie sweetener has garnered positive PR by those working against the obesity epidemic.

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Quarry Books
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January 1, 2009
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1592534740
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978-1592534746
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Kim Flottum brings a background of more than a decade of plant science, honey bee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation is finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, travels extensively to educate and lecture, and contributes to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. His magazine platform gives voice to his social commentary on topics ranging from genetically modified foods to pesticide abuse to both good and bad government regulations in the industry. He is beekeeping's leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.

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Publisher : Quarry Books; First Printing edition (January 1, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 168 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592534740
ISBN-13 : 978-1592534746
Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
Dimensions : 1 x 1 x 1 inches

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Cook and New Gardener

Excellent sequel to Flottum's first book

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2009

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I was initially a little hesitant to buy this book, given the mixed reviews at Amazon, but after receiving it and looking at it, I'm pleased that I did. It's a great follow-on book to Kim Flottum's first book, The Backyard Beekeeper, which gives good basic coverage to hive management practices, bee life cycle and diseases and parasites. This book solidly covers honey production, something that was left out of the first book. I was happy to find the chapter entitled "Guide to Honey Plants" with pictures for identifying common nectar sources, or more importantly, a guide on what to plant in my yard to keep my bees happy with nectar flows throughout spring and summer and make the kind of honey I like. The middle section of the book covers honey harvesting practices (removing bees, honey extraction, filtering, bottling). The last section has recipes for using honey - some look good or okay, some not so much. The last section is definitely not the strength of the book. As a hobbyist beekeeper with a handful of hives in my yard, this book is a great guide for the scale of honey production I am working with.

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Joe

As a beginning beekeeper I was recommended this book by another beekeeper (he's also a dealer ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015

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As a beginning beekeeper I was recommended this book by another beekeeper (he's also a dealer and he wanted me to buy the book from him). Glad I bought it from Amazon/on-line... was a lot cheaper. Not a bad book. My wife has found some good recipes she'd like to try but as a beginning beekeeper I think there are better books out there for the beginner.

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B.Hinojosa

As described

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019

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Great little bookas described

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Shirley G.

Great gift

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2020

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Perfect for a beginner

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K. Lanctot

Honey Handbook

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2010

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I found this book to be very informative. There is a lot of information and it is clear and easy to understand. It tells about the anatomy of the bees, where & why they forage, how to harvest the honey, what equipment you'll need and how to handle all of the above. It also comes with some quite good honey recipes. If you are interested beekeeping and honey this book will help you do it.

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nmart

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016

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Great book with good ideas for bee keepers. This should be a good resource book.

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C. Kirk

very beautiful book

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013

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Lots of easy to understand info, great pictures and really good recipes. I am not quite ready for bees but I enjoyed reading about them and trying some of the recipes.

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Gaye Hill

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015

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Excellent book for beginners. Good ideas, some recipes and marketing examples.

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Fidr

Pricey!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2014

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A good book, but a little overpriced for its content!

CAROLE FARROW

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2015

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great book

Barbara

Great for the Beginner or Experienced Beekeeper

Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2012

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In the first two minutes flipping through this book I got the perfect answer to how to warm my honey up slowly without using too much heat (how to build a warming box).

This book would be enjoyed by a beginner, giving them information they can use but I think the perfect reader for this book is a beekeeper with a couple years experience or one who is preparing to expand their business.

There are many large colour photos throughout which add to the written descriptions.

The primary focus of the book is giving pointers on how to preserve the flavour and quality of the honey right up to point of sale. The secondary focus is on how to produce artisan honey - those lovely unique flavours from mono floral sources.

The third focus is a review of all the equipment and techniques used to remove frames of honey from the hive, and covering all the equipment used for extracting--showing hobbyist equipment right up to equipment used in a large commercial operation.

Honey house layouts are pictured and explained from a small corner in a room to a warehouse sized operation.

Flowers that provide great tasting honey and also not so great are covered. (I knew bees loved common privet but I had no idea it made a horrible tasting honey).

The back of the book has numerous recipes that include honey.

The author is a bit repetitive about not overheating honey and mentioning the value of artisan honey but the rest of the book has enough information to satisfy the reader.

John

as advertised

Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2019

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N. Stephens

This book is a "Honey"!!

Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2013

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I bought this book for my husband who is a backyard beekeeper. He has really liked the information he has read. I have also learned a great deal about beekeeping from reading some of the book! The photography is exceptional also. This has been a great addition to our library on backyard "honey"!!

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