Beekeeping for Beginners

How to Raise Your First Bee Colonies

By: Amber Bradshaw

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Easy beekeeping for new-bees. Wouldn’t it be great to raise your own bees, have a fresh supply of honey, and bring thousands of healthy pollinators into your yard? Beekeeping for Beginners is a simple, step-by-step guide that helps you learn the fundamentals of modern beekeeping. You (and your bees) will be buzzing with delight.

From picking the right hive and bringing your bees home to surviving winter and collecting honey, experienced beekeeper Amber Bradshaw takes you on an easy-to-follow journey through your first year of beekeeping and beyond.

Beekeeping for Beginners includes:

• Just the essentials - Learn everything you need to know to begin your first colony - written with brand new beekeepers in mind.
• Modern beekeeping - Start your colony off right with guides that feature the newest practices and current, natural approaches.
• Learn to speak bee - Clearly defined terms and a complete glossary will have you talking like a pro beekeeper in no time.

Begin your beekeeping the right way - and avoid getting stung by mistakes - with Beekeeping for Beginners.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Rockridge Press, Emeryville, California (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

fantastic listen

very happy joyful voice. loved the content will listen again once I receive my nucs

Great entertaining introduction to bees

Was a good beginning book for a backyard beekeeper. The stories were entertaining while the providing important lessons for bee keeping.

Great intro

Great introduction to beekeeping!! Highly recommend if you’re looking for a place to start beekeeping.

Informative and Entertaining

This book is filled with valuable information for beginning beekeepers and those who just want to learn more. With humor and insight, the author gives pros and cons of beekeeping and recommends newcomers to find a mentor. For anyone considering beekeeping as a hobby or potential enterprise, this book is a good place to start.

Great intro to the hive!

lots of great info.
touches on all if the basics and on what to expect down the line.

Entertaining and informative

I listened to the entire book during a recent road trip. The author's descriptions made it easy to visualize everything and the writing kept me entertained. I recommend to anyone interested in beekeeping.

A.K.A…… Beekeeping for dummies :)

I really appreciate everything in laymen’s terms. It was like beekeeping for dummies. And a gentle yet brutally honest journey through the journey of life with bees for someone like me who literally knew nothing about them in the beginning. Now I feel like I could join a beekeeper society and not be entirely lost or intimidated. Thank you so much for the leg up!!

Pretty good basic info

Covers the basics for us new-bees. That being said, some of the bee jokes were just a bit beeyond my preference.
Only true negative critique would be the editing- should have done a better edit, as the reader loudly and audibly clears her throat in the middle of the reading (at least once) and that should have gotten cut out (it’s really distracting and kinda funny that it slipped through the edit)
Overall though, it’s a decent listen with some good material and a few laughs at the expense of poor bee puns and honey-humor.

Great info for beginners

I’m a brand new beekeeper who listened to this book before getting bees and it has given me lots of great tips and things to think about.

Informative and funny to listen to.

I enjoyed the book, I liked the narrator and thought the content was entertaining. Very basic beekeeping knowledge.