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Everything the budding beekeeper needs for a healthy, productive hive The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Beekeeping has all the information a beekeeping beginner needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer (owners of Golden Rule Honey) take you through the entire process step by step from information on setting up your hive to how to keep your bees healthy. Also find out how to raise a queen, harvest honey and wax, and store hives for the off-season. Whether you're taking up beekeeping as a new hobby or want more information about apiculture before you dive in, The Complete Idiot's Guide® To Beekeeping will get you well informed before you suit up.

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When we learn to live by creating a better world rather than using up the one we have, keeping bees without treatments will be easy. Until that time, methods like those that Dean and Laurie describe are necessary, and worth every bit of struggle. It's the best way. -- Kirk Webster, Vermont Beekeeper

When we learn to live by creating a better world rather than using up the one we have, keeping bees without treatments will be easy. Until that time, methods like those that Dean and Laurie describe are necessary, and worth every bit of struggle. It's the best way. Kirk Webster, Vermont Beekeeper

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Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer are both expert beekeepers and the owners of Golden Rule Honey, LLC. They run beekeeping conferences and write for beekeeping magazines and other industry journals.

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