Kim Flottum

Now, this author takes serious beekeepers past the beginning stages, past the learning curves and the days of early errors.

It leaps the major hurdles of keeping bees today-migratory beekeeping, pesticide polluted fields, monoculture crops and unpredictable queens-and offers solutions and rewards for keeping bees a better way.

Better queens, better winters, better food and better bees await any beekeeper willing to take on the challenge of having the right number of bees, of the right age, in the right place, in the right condition, at the right time.