Been reading a lot of books and stuff that Anita has gotten from the library; figuring out and learning stuff; fascinating.
The books we are reading (each of us) and the DVDs we are watching include:
- Beekeeping; A practical guide – Bonney – ISBN 978-0-88266-861-1
- Honey Bees; Letters from the hive – Buchmann – ISBM 978-0-385-73770-8
- Storey’s guide to keeping honey bees – Sanford, etc. – ISBN 978-1-60342-550-6
- The Bee Book – Chadwick, etc. – ISBN 978-1-4654-4383-0
- The Biology of the Honey Bee – Winston – ISBN 0-674-07408-4
- The Complete Idiot’s guide to beekeeping – Stiglitz, etc. – ISBN978-1-61564-011-9
- The Hive Detectives – Burns – ISBN 978-0-547-15231-8
- Victory Gardens for Bees – Weidenhammer – ISBN 978-1-77162-053-6
- Wisdom for Beekeepers – Tew – ISBN 978-1-62113-761-0
- DVD – More Than Honey – Markus Imhoof
- DVD – Saving The Life Keepers – Brian Cambell, etc.
- DVD – Queen of the Sun – Jon Betz
I’m not going to go into the large hand-fulls of you-tube videos we’ve watched as well; all that information can be confusing since anyone with a camera and a bee-suit can end up with a posted video; not that the information isn’t useful (because it is) but there’s an awful lot of stuff out there. [The FlowHive stuff seems intriguing; THAT’s a neat gadget!]
Based on our county rules, we can have beehives in our yard (we’re on about 3/4 of an acre), and will have to get permits (but that’s easy to do); our only contention is that we don’t have our own fence, and any hive within 10 feet of a neighbor’s yard, needs to have a 6 foot fence; I can move the hive in (now were are thinking of getting 2 hives based on what we read), and have been designing some layouts.
She’s signed us up as members of the Ohio State Beekeepers Association, and to the Central Ohio Beekeepers Association, and will be going to the annual meeting on 5 Nov. 2016; I’ll write about that one when it’s over.