Bees Know More than Beekeepers: Getting The Best From Your Bees, Published by Outskirts Press
Lexington, NC, January 25, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Getting The Best From Your Bees by David MacFawn and Chris Slade. The authors’ most recent book to date is a 6 x 9 paperback in the crafts and hobbies reference category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/gettingthebestfromyourbees was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
Beekeeping programs in the United States have historically focused on theoretical test questions and answers, but have not included extensive practical hive manipulation techniques. This book explores practical in-hive techniques that should be learned by at least an advanced beginner level, beekeeping year 2, and should be fully utilized by the Master Beekeeping level. Other techniques exist, but the authors listed what they thought were the most important techniques.
This advanced beginner book is international in scope. The authors are from the South Eastern United States and the United Kingdom. They hope they bring both diversity and beekeeping commonality to this text.
The concept for this book was born at the Virginia Tech, Winchester, Virginia Research Center, USA, while looking for ways to improve the management of the research colonies. One of the overall themes is that one needs to go with the natural tendency of the bees to be successful. One has to learn what “normal” is for a beehive.
“All beekeeping is local,” the authors point out. What might work in Alaska may not apply in Australia. Beekeepers are therefore advised to join their local Beekeepers’ Association and apply the techniques described in this book after discussion with more experienced members. The association will also be able to advise on the current state of the local law.
One of the authors learned years ago from Dr. John Ambrose the North Carolina State Apiarists, United States at North Carolina State University that to be successful with bees, “You need to understand enough about their nature that you do things supportive of their nature and not against their nature. The bees know better what they are doing than the beekeeper. Watch and listen to the bees.”
153 pages, Getting The Best From Your Bees is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the crafts and hobbies reference category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Getting The Best From Your Bees meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $18.95.
Additionally, Getting The Best From Your Bees can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432766467
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $18.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/gettingthebestfromyourbees.
About the authors:
David Elgie MacFawn: David has kept bees in Maryland (Dark German bees), Virginia (Italian), North Carolina (Italian), Colorado (Russian), and South Carolina (Italian and Russian Hybrid). He is a sideline beekeeper in the Columbia, South Carolina, USA, area. He is a North Carolina Master Craftsman Beekeeper; he co-founded the South Carolina Master Beekeeping Program; he was South Carolina Beekeeper of the Year; he has assisted Dr. Fell at Virginia Tech in the Virginia Master Beekeeping Program; he incorporated the South Carolina Beekeepers Association as a 501C3 Non-Profit Corporation; and he Published several (over five) articles in the American Bee Journal. David has a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Operations Research.
Chris Slade: Chris dedicates this book to Arthur Worth who taught him beekeeping in 1977. Worth was keeping his head down in a shell hole in Flanders in 1917 when he saw bees working the poppies unconcerned by all the carnage. It was then that he decided, if he survived, he would become a beekeeper.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Beekeeping programs in the United States have historically focused on theoretical test questions and answers, but have not included extensive practical hive manipulation techniques. This book explores practical in-hive techniques that should be learned by at least an advanced beginner level, beekeeping year 2, and should be fully utilized by the Master Beekeeping level. Other techniques exist, but the authors listed what they thought were the most important techniques.
This advanced beginner book is international in scope. The authors are from the South Eastern United States and the United Kingdom. They hope they bring both diversity and beekeeping commonality to this text.
The concept for this book was born at the Virginia Tech, Winchester, Virginia Research Center, USA, while looking for ways to improve the management of the research colonies. One of the overall themes is that one needs to go with the natural tendency of the bees to be successful. One has to learn what “normal” is for a beehive.
“All beekeeping is local,” the authors point out. What might work in Alaska may not apply in Australia. Beekeepers are therefore advised to join their local Beekeepers’ Association and apply the techniques described in this book after discussion with more experienced members. The association will also be able to advise on the current state of the local law.
One of the authors learned years ago from Dr. John Ambrose the North Carolina State Apiarists, United States at North Carolina State University that to be successful with bees, “You need to understand enough about their nature that you do things supportive of their nature and not against their nature. The bees know better what they are doing than the beekeeper. Watch and listen to the bees.”
153 pages, Getting The Best From Your Bees is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the crafts and hobbies reference category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Getting The Best From Your Bees meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $18.95.
Additionally, Getting The Best From Your Bees can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432766467
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $18.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/gettingthebestfromyourbees.
About the authors:
David Elgie MacFawn: David has kept bees in Maryland (Dark German bees), Virginia (Italian), North Carolina (Italian), Colorado (Russian), and South Carolina (Italian and Russian Hybrid). He is a sideline beekeeper in the Columbia, South Carolina, USA, area. He is a North Carolina Master Craftsman Beekeeper; he co-founded the South Carolina Master Beekeeping Program; he was South Carolina Beekeeper of the Year; he has assisted Dr. Fell at Virginia Tech in the Virginia Master Beekeeping Program; he incorporated the South Carolina Beekeepers Association as a 501C3 Non-Profit Corporation; and he Published several (over five) articles in the American Bee Journal. David has a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Operations Research.
Chris Slade: Chris dedicates this book to Arthur Worth who taught him beekeeping in 1977. Worth was keeping his head down in a shell hole in Flanders in 1917 when he saw bees working the poppies unconcerned by all the carnage. It was then that he decided, if he survived, he would become a beekeeper.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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