The Beekeeper’s Journal

Description

Store your notes, journal entries, and daily beekeeping records, observations, and to-do lists within the pages of this beautiful and inspirational journal.The Beekeeper's Journal will be right at home among your beekeeping supplies, because it's the perfect place to keep your thoughts, recipes, inspirations, sketches, and more. Photographs and illustrations on each spread complement the helpful tips, anecdotes, ideas, recipes, how-tos, and images from beekeeping expert, Kim Flottum.
This book is not only a useful tool, but the perfect keepsake for avid beekeepers; make your own beekeeping scrap book among it's beautifully illustrated pages!

Your beekeeping supplies aren't complete without a beekeeping journal! Filled with pictures, quotes, beekeeping advice, and plenty of space to sketch and write, this is a must have.

Kim Flottum brings a background of twelve years of plant science, honey bee research,  and basic farming to his thirty 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.

Introduction

How to Use This Book to Become a Better Beekeeper

In the Beginning
For bees and beekeepers, the new year begins in late winter, as the days begin to warm and lengthen. Early spring is a reintroduction between bee and beekeeper.

Why We Keep Bees

Bees (and Beekeepers) in Winter

Nourished by Honey

Back to the Beeyard

Spring: The World Wakes Up

Observing Your Bees

Spring Checklist

Winter and Spring Recipes:

Spiced Honey Tea

Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding and Honey Cream

Roast Spring Lamb

Honey-Glazed Carrots

Asparagus with Lemon-Honey Vinaigrette

Growing Up
The late spring and summer months are the most active for the bees and their keepers, as the world beyond the hive blooms and the colonies begin to produce delicious honey.

Knowing Your Bees

Raising Gentle Bees

Understanding Honey Production

Mapping Your Garden

Knowing the Beekeeper

Natural Beekeepin

Summer Checklist

Summer Recipes:

Honey-Ginger Lemonade

Honey-Dill Potato Salad

Honeyed Fruit Salad

Settling In
The cooler days of fall bring the final honey harvest and then, a slowing of activity for the bees and the beekeeper. Both hope for a quiet, safe winter to prepare for the spring.

The Honey Harvest

The Beeswax Harvest

Fall Checklist

The Coming Winter

Your Beekeeping Community

Fall and Cosmetics Recipes:

Infused Honey

Baklava

Honey Lip Balm

Honey-Cucumber Skin Toner

Beekeeper’s Wassail

Conclusion

A Beekeeper’s Reflections                                             

Additional information

Weight	1 oz
Dimensions	1 × 7 × 9 in