Quarry Books, 2011. — 307 p. — ISBN: 1592536522.
Backyard beekeepers everywhere agree, a successful colony is a thing of beauty.
The essential theme is simple: If you produce the right number of bees of the right age at the right time in the right place in the right condition you will be successful.
To accomplish this requires making intelligent decisions in the beeyard, sound planning, tuning into nature, and balancing biology and business savvy. There are not a lot of how-to instructions hidden within this, but there's a lot of real-world study, smart, intuitive thinking, and setting of goals.