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Keeping bees with a smile – principles and practice of natural beekeeping

Fedor Lazutin with Leo Sharashkin

2020 (2nd edition) 343 pages soft cover

In the second edition of the bestselling beekeeping guide Keeping Bees with a Smile, Fedor Lazutin, one of Europe’s most successful natural beekeepers, shares the bee-friendly approach to apiculture that is fun, healthful, rewarding, and accessible to all. This new edition includes dozens of colour photographs, new hive management techniques, and an updated version of plans for the “Lazutin hive”. Additional coverage includes:

• Keeping bees naturally without interfering in their lives

• Starting an apiary for free by attracting local bee swarms

• Building low-maintenance hives that mimic how bees live in nature

• Keeping colonies healthy and strong without any drugs, sugar, or gimmickry

• Helping bees to overwinter successfully even in harsh climates

• Enhancing local nectar plant resources • Producing truly natural honey without robbing the bees

• Reversing the global bee decline... right in your backyard!

Keeping Bees with a Smile is an invaluable resource for beginners and professionals alike, complete with plans for making bee-friendly, well-insulated horizontal hives with extra-deep frames, plus other fascinating beekeeping advice you will not find anywhere else.

Fedor Lazutin was a natural beekeeper, homesteader, and advocate for habitat restoration and sustainable living in Russia.

Leonid Sharashkin, PhD, is a full-time natural beekeeper and founder of HorizontalHive.com. He has edited numerous books on natural beekeeping, writes for major magazines, and speaks internationally on bee-friendly beekeeping. He keeps bees in the Ozarks of southern Missouri.

New Society Publishers

Making and selling cosmetics – honeycomb cleansing cream

Sara Robb

2020 30 pages soft cover

A really useful and useable guide to making cleansing cream – what it is, what its properties need to be, and how to achieve this. This is the first in a new series of booklets giving easy to use recipes, explanations of the ingredients used, and the function of each within the recipe. There is also a guide to the requirements and legislation concerning selling of cosmetics in the UK.

The insect garden

Michael John Seabrook

2020 204 pages soft cover

A wonderful new guide to the best garden plants to support insects. While written primarily for UK, the information relating to garden plants will be pertinent to many gardeners worldwide. The author’s intent is to help recover insect populations, and towards this end he has researched hundreds of plants to identify those that enable a garden to provide maximum benefit to insects, and much other wildlife too, of course. Full of colour photographs, interesting facts and advice.

Beekeeping training modules – new editions

Bees for Development

These modules are intended or use by beekeeper trainers in tropical Africa and the material can be used as part of a training course.

2020 24 pages softcover

Harvesting and processing honey

At the end of this module participants will:

• Appreciate the value and different uses of honey

• Have an understanding of issues regarding honey quality

• Be able to identify ripe honey

• Be able to harvest and process honey

• Know how to store honey and package it for sale.

African honey bees

After the end of the module course participants will:

Appreciate the benefits of keeping honey bees

• Have an understanding about the needs of a honey bee colony

• Know about the different honey bees in a colony and their roles • Be able to identify honey bee forage in the local area

• Be aware of the different forms of beekeeping practised in Africa.

Modules are available free of charge to projects and associations in developing nations. They are also available for purchase from our website store in pdf format and hard copy (African honey bees is in press)

Available from TECA/FAO

Good beekeeping practices: Practical manual on how to identify and control the main diseases of the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

This is a practical tool to help beekeepers, beekeeping advisory services and veterinarians to properly identify the main honey bee diseases and to take the most appropriate actions in the apiary to control and/or prevent disease outbreaks. This publication follows the TECA publication Main bee diseases: good beekeeping practices (2018) which provided a more general overview of good beekeeping practices for bee diseases.

Download at www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca9182en