`Keeping Bees and Making Honey` is a stunning, comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping packed with images, information, practical advice, useful resources and recipes.Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land; live in the middle of a city or in the countryside surrounded by flowers, you can keep bees. `Keeping Bees and Making Honey` caters for every situation, and covers everything you will need to consider before you set up your colony - including when and how to tell the neighbours!This updated and revised edition of `Keeping Bees and Making Honey` includes new material on bees as a superorganism, keeping bees in urban locations such as schools and at work, caring for bees during the winter, your second year as a bee keeper and more on bee health, varroa and colony collapse disorder.Environmentally there has never been a more important time to start beekeeping, nor is there a better antidote to the stresses of everyday life. `Keeping Bees and Making Honey` is the ideal companion for you if you are planning to start keeping bees in order to contribute to their conservation and to enjoy the considerable benefits of this fascinating hobby.