Beginner's Guide to Reading

As a new beekeeper, I was careful to keep my go-to reference materials limited to a trusted few as there are so many ways to accomplish the same end and just as many opinions on how to do it. It can be more confusing than helpful and am grateful for some of the mentors at BUMBA that help new beekeepers decipher it.

Now that I am completing my first full year, I find that I am more capable of digesting the information and have been reading all that I can, from vintage books to e-zines. Here are a few (besides those talked about elsewhere in the blog) that I find extremely helpful as a new beekeeper:

1. The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum.

2. BUMBA's Yahoo Group where you can search past posts, read uploaded files and browse links to recommended sites.

3. Kim Flottum's email newsletter, The Buzz.

4. Brushy Mountain Bee Farm's webinars, which are available for viewing in their video library.

5. Google's free ebooks on beekeeping.

I hope that you, too, will continue your bee education and find some of these sites just as helpful.