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, 6

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, 14

Bees (and Beekeepers) in Winter, 22

Nourished by Honey, 30

Back to the Beeyard, 38

Spring: The World Wakes Up, 46

Observing Your Bees, 56

Spring Checklist, 64

Winter and Spring Recipes:

Spiced Honey Tea, 21

Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding and Honey Cream, 32

Roast Spring Lamb, 37

Honey-Glazed Carrots, 54

Asparagus with Lemon-Honey Vinaigrette, 55

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, 72

Raising Gentle Bees, 80

Understanding Honey Production, 88

Mapping Your Garden, 96

Knowing the Beekeeper, 106

Natural Beekeepin, 114

Summer Checklist, 122

Summer Recipes:

Honey-Ginger Lemonade, 91

Honey-Dill Potato Salad, 101

Honeyed Fruit Salad,  124

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, 136

The Beeswax Harvest, 146

Fall Checklist, 156

The Coming Winter, 164

Your Beekeeping Community, 172

Fall and Cosmetics Recipes:

Infused Honey, 145

Baklava, 148

Honey Lip Balm, 150

Honey-Cucumber Skin Toner, 151

Beekeeper’s Wassail, 158

Conclusion

A Beekeeper’s Reflections