The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide To Keeping Urban Honeybees

Author: Megan Paska

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Price : $34.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781452107585
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Imprint : Chronicle Books
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Weight (g) : 0.59
Publication date : 01 January 2014
Dimensions : 235mm X 184mm X 19mm
Produced in : United States
RRP : 39.99
Availability date : 01 March 2014
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Author : Megan Paska
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Edition : Mar-14
Illustrator : Masako Kubo
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Dewey classification : 638.1
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Pages : 176
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Description

Rooftop Beekeeper is a gateway urban-beekeeping guide, from the perspective of a young Brooklynite beekeeper. It's a complete and thorough guide with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and 75 colour photographs.

Author description

Megan is a Brooklyn, New York-based rooftop apiarist, blogger and backyard farmer. She has been featured in National Geographic and New York Magazine and on ABCs Nightline, NPR, and the Huffington Post. Her urban-homesteading projects can be read about on her blog, Brooklyn Homesteader. Megan currently hosts an annual Beekeeping Bike Tour and teaches Beekeeping 101 classes at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn and at the New York Botanical Gardens. In addition, she oversees apiaries in conjunction with Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, the first rooftop farm in New York, and maintains hives for Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group at their rooftop garden at Tarry Market in Portchester, New York.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.