Agriculture category: 3369 books
The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook
A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special...
by Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies, and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent, and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber,...
Free-Range Chicken Gardens
How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
“If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom is here to make those dreams come true.” —The New York Times
Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden...
Maintaining Your Dwarf Fruit Orchard
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-134
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen...
Raising Game Birds
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-93
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1984
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything...
by Andrew Matheson & Murray Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand. It provides both amateur and commercial beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive products and information about many other...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping
Everything the Budding Beekeeper Needs for a Healthy, Productive Hive
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The buzz on beekeeping.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Beekeeping has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire...
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, 2nd Edition
Honey Production, Pollination, Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This trusted handbook is a must-have for novice and seasoned beekeepers alike. Now totally redesigned and featuring color photos and graphics, the second edition also includes up-to-date information on honey bee health. The go-to reference presents comprehensive yet accessible information on everything...
by C. P. Dadant
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to beekeeping, with information on starting a hive, hive management, swarming, harvesting honey, seasonal preparations, and much more. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable information, this timeless volume is highly recommended for the modern...
by Jeannine Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
These Are Some Of The Tips You Will Find In The Book :
* Family owned beekeeping companies
* California's Almond Orchards
* Beekeeping in different areas of the world
* Beekeeping and the Apple Orchards
* Acquiring the Bees
* Beekeeper Training – An Industry In The Making!
* Queen Bee –...
Beekeeping For Beginners
The Beginning Beekeepers Guide on Keeping Bees, Maintaining Hives and Harvesting Honey
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Are you looking into going into the beekeeping business? Do you know anything about bees and how they are related to honey? This book will be a guide for you into the world of the bees and their hives.
Beekeeping
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Keep your own bees and enjoy delicious golden honey from your own backyard. With his respect and admiration for bees evident on every page, Richard E. Bonney describes how to acquire bees, manage a hive, prevent and treat diseases, and extract a crop of honey. Enthusiastic beekeepers of every stripe...