A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA

This book imparts the skills needed for prospective beekeepers to enjoy the many benefits of beekeeping. To get started one needs just a few beehives, protective clothing and some simple tools. Honeybees are a natural resource, land ownership is unnecessary and there is no daily routing of feeding watering and medicating. Along with the reward of a crop of honey and other useful hive products, the honeybee’s role as a polinator result is the finest fruit, vegetables and seed.

Beekeping: A practical guide for southern Africa is designed to:

• encourage and inspire potential beekeepers whether they are rural or urban hobbyists, farmworkers or entrepreneurs setting up small business ventures
• provide support for commercial beekeepers and their employees
• satisfy the curiosity of anyone fascinated by the organised society of the honeybee and
• provide a store of useful data on bees and beekeeping, seasoned with a blend of interesting information and folklore.

Dominique and Jenny have kept bees for nearly thirty years. In this book they share their experiences of working with the African bee and, in particular the Cape honeybee.