Get Started in Urban Beekeeping

Keeping bees in an urban environment is a wonderful and satisfying hobby - learn how to run your city hive, harvest honey, and help bees to live side by side with you and your neighbours.

Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts, this is the definitive guide to keeping bees in a city environment.

Straightforward, up-to-date, and systematically organized, this book covers everything you might need, whether you're already an urban beekeeper or just starting out. It gives practical and clear information on the essentials that all apiarists need, in or out of the city, while covering in detail the particular requirements of urban bees.

Specifically designed to be interactive and easy to use, this invaluable guide is an inspiring overview of a wonderful hobby, placing emphasis on swarm control, your neighbours, health and safety and good tempered, happy bees.

- siting your hive in the best location
- equipment you need - and don't
- control, prevent and use a swarm
- make delicious honey

Adrian Waring NBD has been a beekeeper for over 50 years and keeps around 40 colonies. He was until recently General Secretary of the British Beekeepers' Association, and lectures widely on the subject of bees to audiences of all ages.

Claire Waring has been a beekeeper for 25 years and is Editor of Bee Craft magazine.