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Mark David Leech

Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth

Mark David Leech

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English
Brueckner Leech
31 July 2017
Rural communities; Education; Botany & plant sciences; Apiculture (beekeeping); Horticulture
Beekeeping at the End of the Earth, an essential read for learning about beekeeping in a cool temperate climate with a focus on Tasmania our island home.

One hundred beekeepers one hundred different ways to keep bees.

Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth is a practical insight into cool climate beekeeping with a focus on Tasmania, our island home.

Richly illustrated with unique diagrams and floral calendar, useful tables and descriptive images, the pictures help tell the story.

Promoting children as the future of beekeeping while honouring our master beekeepers, Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth provides a valuable resource for this lifetime of learning.

Tasmania our island home is a paradise of wild unspoilt lands, mountains and beaches, an adventure wonderland and a foodies dream. Our apiaries, gardens, farms, fisheries and vineyards produce food of the highest quality providing our applauded restaurants and cafes.

Honey features as a natural food with globally unique leatherwood honey being much sort after and is the mainstay of our industry. Tasmania is also the home to Leptospermum scoparium, Manuka, made famous by New Zealand beekeepers.

Whether you are thinking about beekeeping, are a beginner or seasoned practitioner, you will find useful information for cool climate beekeeping anywhere on the planet in Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth. The Chapter list provides an overview of the content:

Introduction To Begin The Bee Hive Location Urban Equipment Record Keeping Stings Swarms Seasonal Management Flora Harvest, Process, Market, Sell Honey Queen Management & Rearing Nutrition Disease & Pests Alternative Beekeeping & Innovation

Glossary

Bibliography

Native Flora Calendar

Non-native Flora Calendar

The majority of beekeepers in Tasmania use Langstroth hives and are involved in migratory beekeeping following peak honey flows. We look at urban beekeeping, the development of an urban code of practice, even rooftop hives.

Alternative Beekeeping and Innovation explores a number of different approaches based on close to nature concepts including Warr� and top-bar hives. The Flow(R) Hive, the most significant innovation in beehive design and honey collection in over 100 years is applauded.

A guide to disease and pests helps understand issues and manage healthy colonies while providing solutions to their impacts. Biosecurity is essential to the Australian and Tasmanian honey bee industry and protecting bees is vital for the benefit of pollination dependent food crops.

Understanding your local and regional flora and flowering times helps beekeepers move hives to honey flows and identify beneficial plants for planting.

Whether you have one hive or hundreds Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth is a must read for every cool climate beekeeper.
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Imprint:   Brueckner Leech
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 189mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   630g
ISBN:   9780994594600
ISBN 10:   0994594607
Pages:   260
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mark Leech is a reluctant author, a beekeeper, forester, husband, father and opa, often more interested in researching new information and taking relevant images, than writing. Born in Tasmania and widely travelled with his German wife Susanne, Mark has a great appreciation of Tasmania his island home. Author of the highly successful; Bee Friendly A planting guide for European honeybees and Australian native pollinators, A Field Guide to Native Flora Used by Honeybees in Tasmania Tasmanian Floral Resources for Honeybees Mark is passionate about bee forage and nutrition and encouraging children's interest in beekeeping. Mark has been awarded the 2001 Tasmanian World Forestry Day Award and the 2016 Richard Stanton Memorial Award for Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management. Mark and his wife Susanne are passionate about helping the poorest of the poor and have been involved with fundraising, emergency aid and sustainable development with Iris Global in Malawi, Mozambique and Haiti. To God be the glory.

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