Best Book Award
National Agricultural Society, France
Learn natural beekeeping from Europe’s foremost beekeeping authority. Georges de Layens, inventor of the world’s most popular horizontal hive, shares a lifetime of experience on how to:
-
• get started in simplified beekeeping
-
• choose the best hive model for you & your bees
-
• manage your hives with just two visits per year
-
• take advantage of horizontal hives & deep frames
-
• avoid unnecessary complications & procedures
-
• increase an apiary with natural or artificial swarms
-
• transfer bees from one hive model to another
-
• enhance bees’ health drug-free
-
• do without requeening, feeding & other chores
-
• understand honey plants and honeyflows
-
• make award-winning mead (foolproof formula)
-
• use foundation less frames, make wax foundation
-
• handle traditional hives (skeps, log hives, etc.)
-
• keep bees sustainably using local strains
-
• and MUCH more!
Layens’ simple bee keeping boasts over 100 years of successful use, with 1 million hives in use today. Bee-friendly, productive, and fun, keeping bees can be easier than you ever imagined!