Dixon L. Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities

London. Portland: Timber Press, 2012. — 184 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60469-287-7; 978-1-60469-378-2Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities features everything an urbanite needs to know to start keeping bees: how to select the perfect hive, how to buy bees, how to care for a colony, how to harvest honey, and what to do in the winter. Urban beekeeping has particular challenges and needs, and this book highlights the challenges and presents practices that are safe, legal, and neighbor-friendly.The text is rounded out with profiles of urban beekeepers from all over the world, including public hives at the Maryland Center for Horticulture, beekeeping on an office balcony in Melbourne, Australia, and a poolside hive at a hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.Boxes of Bees
Buying Bees
Life Inside the Hive
Sex and the City Bee
The Nectar Garden
Honey Harvest
Winter
Reports from the Field
Resources