The bee and the hive

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Alain Péricard has developed a small apiary (35−40 hives) whose maintenance is respected by his peers. He shares with great generosity the fruit of his experience and his knowledge to support anyone who aspires to start or improve in beekeeping. This new edition presents the most recent advances in theoretical and technical knowledge and will teach you:

• the basics of bee biology and its interactions with the environment;
• the resources needed to install your hives and choose your site carefully;
• the essential equipment and tools to accomplish the various tasks throughout the beekeeping season;
• how to identify, prevent and protect your hives from diseases, parasites and predators, and how to maintain healthy colonies;
• techniques specific to interventions that concern the queen and genetic selection;
• how to extract, use and process honey and other apiary products;
• how to promote vigorous colonies at the end of the critical overwintering period.

Incorporating his approach into the necessary reconfiguration of our relationships with nature, the author also explains everything that visiting bees brings us, collectively and individually, whether it be their importance for the environment, food, health. , but also our simple pleasure. Richly illustrated and written by an experienced beekeeper, this book has established itself since its first edition as an essential reference in ecological beekeeping in the French-speaking world.

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Author: Alain Péricard
Preface: Pierre Rabhi
Illustration: Cécile Liénaux
Edition: Ecosociety
Dimensions: 22 x 22 cm (8,6 x 8,6 in)
Page: 360
Release date: May 15, 2023
ISBN: 9782897198916

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