Handy New Beekeeping Reference Books
To help beekeepers have more time with their bees, I am writing three reference books focused on addressing issues that keep beekeepers - well, from their bees.
All three books include easy to use guides and check lists based on my decades of running educational non-profits, my years teaching beginning beekeeping classes and my experience gardening ever since I can remember.
A Beekeeper's Diary is a self-guide to beekeeping; Bees Need Flowers is a guide to planting for pollinators and Bee Club Basics is how to build a supportive beekeeping community through an educational non-profit club. You can see the book principles at work at Rollabeeclub.com.
To help beekeepers have more time with their bees, I am writing three reference books focused on addressing issues that keep beekeepers - well, from their bees.
All three books include easy to use guides and check lists based on my decades of running educational non-profits, my years teaching beginning beekeeping classes and my experience gardening ever since I can remember.
A Beekeeper's Diary is a self-guide to beekeeping; Bees Need Flowers is a guide to planting for pollinators and Bee Club Basics is how to build a supportive beekeeping community through an educational non-profit club. You can see the book principles at work at Rollabeeclub.com.
"Bee Club Basics or How to Start a Bee Club" illustrated by Jake Tupper.
"Bee Club Basics" or How to Run a Bee Club"
Bee Club Basics is an easy to use guide for anyone wanting to start an educational non-profit. And no, don't start with the bylaws!
This book has 186 pages of helpful information including 28 pages of check lists club managers can copy to use as their guide to establish, or re-energize, an educationally-focused bee club. Each chapter also includes interesting trivia about bees and beekeeping club managers can use.
Approved by Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program. Published April 2020.
Since COVID, I have added a helpful section on how to hold online meetings, which was featured in October 2020 Bee Culture Magazine.
Bee Club Basics book $35 and handy gift set $49.95 including taxes and shipping.
Also available on Amazon and at Dadant.
"Bee Club Basics" or How to Run a Bee Club"
Bee Club Basics is an easy to use guide for anyone wanting to start an educational non-profit. And no, don't start with the bylaws!
This book has 186 pages of helpful information including 28 pages of check lists club managers can copy to use as their guide to establish, or re-energize, an educationally-focused bee club. Each chapter also includes interesting trivia about bees and beekeeping club managers can use.
Approved by Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program. Published April 2020.
Since COVID, I have added a helpful section on how to hold online meetings, which was featured in October 2020 Bee Culture Magazine.
Bee Club Basics book $35 and handy gift set $49.95 including taxes and shipping.
Also available on Amazon and at Dadant.
Working on the final version of "A Beekeeper's Diary," Self-Guide to Beekeeping, also illustrated by Jake Tupper.
"A Beekeeper's Diary, Self-Guide to Beekeeping"
"A Beekeeper's Diary" is another helpful guide for anyone thinking about, and starting to, keep honey bees. The combination of beginning beekeeping book and handy check lists will guide a beginner's decision-making process. Hopefully it also makes the decision process kinder on their wallet.
I started this diary in 2012 when I began teaching beginning beekeeping classes. Over the years, the diary has been refined to include key information beekeepers can use to successfully start their beekeeping adventure, from what equipment to buy, basic bee biology and handy tips to get a good start. The book is currently in the final design phase so not sure yet of final page count.
Approved by Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program. The diary is recommended for use with Rolla Bee Club Beginning Beekeeping and Second Year Beekeeping classes. The book also stands alone for those who don't have easy access to a beginning class.
Available December 2020. Suggested retail $45. Email me to notify you when the book is available.
"A Beekeeper's Diary, Self-Guide to Beekeeping"
"A Beekeeper's Diary" is another helpful guide for anyone thinking about, and starting to, keep honey bees. The combination of beginning beekeeping book and handy check lists will guide a beginner's decision-making process. Hopefully it also makes the decision process kinder on their wallet.
I started this diary in 2012 when I began teaching beginning beekeeping classes. Over the years, the diary has been refined to include key information beekeepers can use to successfully start their beekeeping adventure, from what equipment to buy, basic bee biology and handy tips to get a good start. The book is currently in the final design phase so not sure yet of final page count.
Approved by Great Plains Master Beekeeping Program. The diary is recommended for use with Rolla Bee Club Beginning Beekeeping and Second Year Beekeeping classes. The book also stands alone for those who don't have easy access to a beginning class.
Available December 2020. Suggested retail $45. Email me to notify you when the book is available.
The Cover to "Bees Need Flowers" Planting for Pollinators by, can you guess?
"Bees Need Flowers" Planting for Pollinators
Work Has Started On "Bees Need Flowers, Planting for Pollinators." We just finished getting the cover and spine settled. (Do not read the back cover, that's the one for The Beekeeper's Diary, we'll be getting to that next.)
Learn how to improve your garden so that your bees are getting the healthy nutritious food they need to stay healthy. This book will also be of interest to beginning gardeners and those who want to add nutritious food sources to our valuable pollinators. Available 2021 (that's my goal!)
This book will support the Planting for Pollinators lectures I have been giving since 2015.
Email me if you want to be notified when this book is published.
© 2012-2020 Charlotte Ekker Wiggins LLC, all rights reserved.
"Bees Need Flowers" Planting for Pollinators
Work Has Started On "Bees Need Flowers, Planting for Pollinators." We just finished getting the cover and spine settled. (Do not read the back cover, that's the one for The Beekeeper's Diary, we'll be getting to that next.)
Learn how to improve your garden so that your bees are getting the healthy nutritious food they need to stay healthy. This book will also be of interest to beginning gardeners and those who want to add nutritious food sources to our valuable pollinators. Available 2021 (that's my goal!)
This book will support the Planting for Pollinators lectures I have been giving since 2015.
Email me if you want to be notified when this book is published.
© 2012-2020 Charlotte Ekker Wiggins LLC, all rights reserved.