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Edited by: Dominique Marchand and Jenny Marchand-Mayne Title: Beekeeping - A practical guide for southern Africa ISBN: 0-9584564-2-9 192 pages, 240 mm x 168 mm Price : $US15.00 excluding insured postage and packaging (for Europe add an additional $US10.00) Exchange rate Order: Aardvark Press PO Box 37571 Valyland 7978 Cape Town South Africa Tel/fax: 021 782 4174 Email: orders@aardvarkpress.co.za

Beekeeping - A practical guide for southern Africa aims to:

• encourage and inspire potential beekeepers (whether weekend hobbyists, rural people, farm workers or entrepreneurs);

• promote the craft of beekeeping as a profitable and sustainable small to medium-sized business initiative;

• promote understanding of the organised and productive society of the honeybee;

• provide a store of useful data on African bees (in particular the remarkable Cape honeybee) and beekeeping, and

• advance a vigorous honey producing industry in southern Africa and, ultimately, the export of surplus hive products.

Contents of the book by chapter

1. The honeybee in nature

2. About the honeybee

3. Beekeeping kit and tools

4. Apiary sites

5. Beehives

6. Beginning beekeeping

7. Hive management

8. Feeding bees

9. Special management

10. Queen rearing

11. Bee plants

12. Honey

13. Supering and harvesting honey

14. Honey extraction

15. Costing and marketing honey

16. Other hive products and their uses

17. Beeswax

18. Pollination

19. Rural beekeeping

20. Pests, diseases and other problems 
    Other sources of information 
    Beekeeping terms 
    Index

About the authors Dominique Marchand and Jenny Marchand-Mayne

French-born Dominique Marchand and his wife, Jenny Marchand-Mayne, have farmed bees in South Africa for twenty-five years. They also run a business, the Honeybee Foundation and Products, in Cape Town. HF&P manufactures beekeeping equipment, provides pollination and swarm removal services and sells hive products such as raw honey, health products, confectionary and apicosmetics. In addition the HF&P offers educational initiatives including a creative education centre for young and adult learners (both for hobbyists and training for rural development). 

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