Grit Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey, 8th Edition

The Grit Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey, 8th Edition is a special-issue beekeeping guide that walks you from setting up a hive to harvesting and using your own honey.

Bees are among the most important insects in our ecosystem, and this issue shows how rewarding it is to keep a colony in your own backyard.

At a glance

• Format: Print special issue
• Edition: 8th Edition
• Publisher: Mother Earth News (Grit)
• Topics: Beekeeping, hive designs, honey, beeswax, recipes

Best for

• Aspiring backyard beekeepers
• New hive owners learning to harvest honey
• Gardeners wanting more pollinators
• Home cooks who want to use honey
• A gift for a beekeeping enthusiast

What's inside

Coverage includes five tips before getting started, the differences between the top three beehive designs, how to harness a swarm to save money, extracting and processing honey, cleaning and storing beeswax, and more than 15 honey recipes, plus articles on bee-friendly gardens and bee behavior.

About Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News is a long-running publisher covering homesteading, organic gardening, and sustainable living, offering practical self-reliance guidance for modern readers.