Organic Beekeeping
Principles, Practices and Pitfalls
In Organic Beekeeping, Grant Gillard peels back the implied simplicity and expounds the accountability for beekeepers who want to keep honey bees organically and produce organic honey. Our chemical-laden, industrial production agriculture has made it virtually impossible to, legitimately, keep honey bees under organic management.
Our concession, as beekeepers, is find ways to keep honey bees, as organic as possible.
Principles, Practices and Pitfalls
In Organic Beekeeping, Grant Gillard peels back the implied simplicity and expounds the accountability for beekeepers who want to keep honey bees organically and produce organic honey. Our chemical-laden, industrial production agriculture has made it virtually impossible to, legitimately, keep honey bees under organic management.
Our concession, as beekeepers, is find ways to keep honey bees, as organic as possible.
How God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
The Sufficiency of Grace and the Accountability of Effort God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble. But faith is anything but passive. God calls us, invites us, and waits for us to respond. In some cases, God’s help is contingent upon our desire and initiative to step out in faith and help ourselves.
In How God Helps Those Who Help Themselves, author, teacher and pastor, Grant F. C. Gillard, shares a daring proposition connecting our actions, our attitudes and our responses to God’s grace-filled invitation which open heaven’s doors to receiving God’s help.
Grant writes, “As I reflect upon life and my relationship with Jesus Christ, I see a strong and loving God who seeks to have us find the best in life, to overcome the worst in ourselves, and to enjoy fellowship with God and community with our brothers and sisters. Yet there are things we do, choices we make, both positive and negative, accidentally and intentionally, that impact how we experience God’s help...and how we might miss out on God’s blessings.”
This is a manuscript that names those, “things,” we can do that help ourselves, so God help us. Click Here
The Sufficiency of Grace and the Accountability of Effort God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble. But faith is anything but passive. God calls us, invites us, and waits for us to respond. In some cases, God’s help is contingent upon our desire and initiative to step out in faith and help ourselves.
In How God Helps Those Who Help Themselves, author, teacher and pastor, Grant F. C. Gillard, shares a daring proposition connecting our actions, our attitudes and our responses to God’s grace-filled invitation which open heaven’s doors to receiving God’s help.
Grant writes, “As I reflect upon life and my relationship with Jesus Christ, I see a strong and loving God who seeks to have us find the best in life, to overcome the worst in ourselves, and to enjoy fellowship with God and community with our brothers and sisters. Yet there are things we do, choices we make, both positive and negative, accidentally and intentionally, that impact how we experience God’s help...and how we might miss out on God’s blessings.”
This is a manuscript that names those, “things,” we can do that help ourselves, so God help us. Click Here
SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING: Surviving in ag Age of CCD.
Creating New Paradigms for Today's Challenges.
There is more to beekeeping than simply keeping bees. Honey bees face threats
from Colony Collapse Disorder, systemic pesticides and GMO crops. It's becoming
more difficult to keep honey bees, and next to impossible to keep those bees
alive! How do we survive in this challenging age?
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Creating New Paradigms for Today's Challenges.
There is more to beekeeping than simply keeping bees. Honey bees face threats
from Colony Collapse Disorder, systemic pesticides and GMO crops. It's becoming
more difficult to keep honey bees, and next to impossible to keep those bees
alive! How do we survive in this challenging age?
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BEEKEEPING WITH TWENTY-FIVE HIVES:
From Passion to Profits
This manuscript is written for the beekeeper hoping to grow to around twenty-five hives, or for the beekeeper who is at the twenty-five hive level and struggling a little bit to find the available time to effectively manage bees on this level. There is nothing magical about keeping twenty-five hives of bees other than the reality that things begin to change when you reach this level. At twenty-five hives begin to ask you to take your commitment seriously, that these bees now occupy a higher priority in your life.
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From Passion to Profits
This manuscript is written for the beekeeper hoping to grow to around twenty-five hives, or for the beekeeper who is at the twenty-five hive level and struggling a little bit to find the available time to effectively manage bees on this level. There is nothing magical about keeping twenty-five hives of bees other than the reality that things begin to change when you reach this level. At twenty-five hives begin to ask you to take your commitment seriously, that these bees now occupy a higher priority in your life.
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A TON OF HONEY:
Managing Your Hives for Maximum Production
Every beekeeper dreams of harvesting abundant, if not "MONSTER" crops of honey.
But the bees do not always cooperate with our plans. There are five main management practices that will insure a harvestable crop of honey. This book will also inform you how to work with other factors including the weather, available forage, and location, location, location. If you long for a honey crop, or at least hoping to get the most honey from your bees as you work with their potential, this book will show you how.
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Managing Your Hives for Maximum Production
Every beekeeper dreams of harvesting abundant, if not "MONSTER" crops of honey.
But the bees do not always cooperate with our plans. There are five main management practices that will insure a harvestable crop of honey. This book will also inform you how to work with other factors including the weather, available forage, and location, location, location. If you long for a honey crop, or at least hoping to get the most honey from your bees as you work with their potential, this book will show you how.
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NICOT QUEEN REARING
The Non-Grafting Method For Raising Local Queens
Beekeeping is a journey of many roads. This is a manuscript for beekeepers wishing to learn how to raise their own, local queens...but just cannot bring themselves to figure out how to graft. The NICOT queen rearing system explains how the average beekeeper implements its unique design and overcomes the distinctive hurdles to raising local queens without grafting. This manuscript shares the journey of one beekeeper who taught himself how to raise his own queen honey bees.
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The Non-Grafting Method For Raising Local Queens
Beekeeping is a journey of many roads. This is a manuscript for beekeepers wishing to learn how to raise their own, local queens...but just cannot bring themselves to figure out how to graft. The NICOT queen rearing system explains how the average beekeeper implements its unique design and overcomes the distinctive hurdles to raising local queens without grafting. This manuscript shares the journey of one beekeeper who taught himself how to raise his own queen honey bees.
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FREE BEES!
The Joy and the Insanity of Removing and
Retrieving Honey Bee Swarms
If you are struggling to get started in beekeeping, you know it costs a ton of money to buy all the equipment. Shipping charges are increasing every year. Costs continue to go up. Bees, in certain times during the season, are in short supply. And the GREAT news is that you can catch swarms of "free" bees without incurring the cash costs of buying a package of bees or a nuc. This book is about my experience finding, catching and keeping free bees. Click Here
The Joy and the Insanity of Removing and
Retrieving Honey Bee Swarms
If you are struggling to get started in beekeeping, you know it costs a ton of money to buy all the equipment. Shipping charges are increasing every year. Costs continue to go up. Bees, in certain times during the season, are in short supply. And the GREAT news is that you can catch swarms of "free" bees without incurring the cash costs of buying a package of bees or a nuc. This book is about my experience finding, catching and keeping free bees. Click Here
Keeping Honey Bees and Swarm Trapping:
A Better Way to Collect "Free" Bees
Swarm trapping is another aspect to free bees that entails catching that runaway swarm even when I'm not around and in places I can't always be. I've wondered about the swarms that come out of bee trees in remote areas where no human being was able to discover them and call me. And what about the swarms that people find but they don't know who to call? Then I began to think about creating some kind of a temporary location, baited with a pheromone lure to attract the scout bees so I wouldn't necessarily have to be present to retrieve the swarm. It would be kind of like fishing. Click Here
A Better Way to Collect "Free" Bees
Swarm trapping is another aspect to free bees that entails catching that runaway swarm even when I'm not around and in places I can't always be. I've wondered about the swarms that come out of bee trees in remote areas where no human being was able to discover them and call me. And what about the swarms that people find but they don't know who to call? Then I began to think about creating some kind of a temporary location, baited with a pheromone lure to attract the scout bees so I wouldn't necessarily have to be present to retrieve the swarm. It would be kind of like fishing. Click Here
WHY I KEEP HONEY BEES
(AND WHY YOU SHOULD, TOO!)
Keys to Your Success
I receive a million phone calls and e-mails from people who tell me, "Yeah, every since this CCD thing, I've been thinking about getting into bees." I usually respond in the affirmative, but there is a WHOLE lot more to beekeeping than "thinking" about getting into this wonderful hobby. I've been a beekeeper since 1981, and his books shares my apicultural journey into beekeeping, first in Glenville, Minnesota, and now in Jackson, Missouri. Beekeeping is the fastest growing hobby in the United States, but it is not as easy nor as idealistic as most beginners presume. The investment to get started is rather steep, and surprises those who think something "natural" will be inexpensive. And consider a statistic tossed around that 80% of all beginners quit within two years. I describe many of the details that make for a success beginning into beekeeping, including your motivation for "getting into bees." Click Here
(AND WHY YOU SHOULD, TOO!)
Keys to Your Success
I receive a million phone calls and e-mails from people who tell me, "Yeah, every since this CCD thing, I've been thinking about getting into bees." I usually respond in the affirmative, but there is a WHOLE lot more to beekeeping than "thinking" about getting into this wonderful hobby. I've been a beekeeper since 1981, and his books shares my apicultural journey into beekeeping, first in Glenville, Minnesota, and now in Jackson, Missouri. Beekeeping is the fastest growing hobby in the United States, but it is not as easy nor as idealistic as most beginners presume. The investment to get started is rather steep, and surprises those who think something "natural" will be inexpensive. And consider a statistic tossed around that 80% of all beginners quit within two years. I describe many of the details that make for a success beginning into beekeeping, including your motivation for "getting into bees." Click Here
Beekeeping 101: Where Can I Keep My Bees?
Back Yards and Out Yards
So you want to start keeping bees? Where does a newbee or hobbyist place their bee hives? The back yard is the most obvious choice, but there are many factors, including municpal ordinances and relations with the neighbors. Urban beekeeping is on the rise and roof top apiaries are becoming popular. Still, there are several factors that limit and define the most successful apiary site selection. In this manuscript, Grant details what makes for the ideal location for the bees, plus cites a number of other criteria helpful to the beekeeper. Just like in real estate, the admonition of "location, location, location," rings true for the honey bee and honey production. Click Here
Back Yards and Out Yards
So you want to start keeping bees? Where does a newbee or hobbyist place their bee hives? The back yard is the most obvious choice, but there are many factors, including municpal ordinances and relations with the neighbors. Urban beekeeping is on the rise and roof top apiaries are becoming popular. Still, there are several factors that limit and define the most successful apiary site selection. In this manuscript, Grant details what makes for the ideal location for the bees, plus cites a number of other criteria helpful to the beekeeper. Just like in real estate, the admonition of "location, location, location," rings true for the honey bee and honey production. Click Here
THE BANKER'S SECRET
Financial Solutions to Your Personal Debt Crisis and Credit Crunch
Debt is killing us. It overwhelms us. Our personal, consumer debt weighs heavy upon us. Burdensome and impossible to manage, there seems to be no way out. This manuscript affirms there is a positive alternative to managing our debt. It concludes there is a method that accelerates the repayment of debt and brings about the freedom of living debt-free, sooner than we ever imagined. There's nothing magical or illegal about these methods, but it continues to amaze me how the ordinary consumer remains unfamiliar with the simplicity of getting out of debt.
And it's not the debt that is the real problem but the way they manage their debt with inefficient ignorance. Perhaps that ignorance is why we call it the banker's "secret." But there is nothing secret about it. The Banker's Secret is a method to efficiently and effectively manage your debt and become debt-free.
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Financial Solutions to Your Personal Debt Crisis and Credit Crunch
Debt is killing us. It overwhelms us. Our personal, consumer debt weighs heavy upon us. Burdensome and impossible to manage, there seems to be no way out. This manuscript affirms there is a positive alternative to managing our debt. It concludes there is a method that accelerates the repayment of debt and brings about the freedom of living debt-free, sooner than we ever imagined. There's nothing magical or illegal about these methods, but it continues to amaze me how the ordinary consumer remains unfamiliar with the simplicity of getting out of debt.
And it's not the debt that is the real problem but the way they manage their debt with inefficient ignorance. Perhaps that ignorance is why we call it the banker's "secret." But there is nothing secret about it. The Banker's Secret is a method to efficiently and effectively manage your debt and become debt-free.
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BETTER LUCK THIS TIME: MAKING GOOD LUCK HAPPEN
Creating Favorable Situations for Better Outcomes
Yet luck is no accident. Luck is opportunity meeting preparation. Rather than relying on four-leaf clovers and the amputated feet of dead rabbits, luck comes through an awareness of the opportunity and the timely positioning that comes through shrewd preparation. Life is overflowing with opportunities if we know how to find them, or conversely, how we prepare so they find us! Better Luck THIS Time: Making Good Luck Happen explains that luck is life's opportunity meeting our preparation. And rather than being random, luck can be managed. Preparation involves positioning and timing. Opportunity is created with attitudes of optimism and expectation. We can make our own luck happen.
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Creating Favorable Situations for Better Outcomes
Yet luck is no accident. Luck is opportunity meeting preparation. Rather than relying on four-leaf clovers and the amputated feet of dead rabbits, luck comes through an awareness of the opportunity and the timely positioning that comes through shrewd preparation. Life is overflowing with opportunities if we know how to find them, or conversely, how we prepare so they find us! Better Luck THIS Time: Making Good Luck Happen explains that luck is life's opportunity meeting our preparation. And rather than being random, luck can be managed. Preparation involves positioning and timing. Opportunity is created with attitudes of optimism and expectation. We can make our own luck happen.
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THE FRED FACTOR
How One Man Changed the World Through His Family
This book was presented to Fred Farris on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Created by his son-in-law, the collection of family remembrances represents a memoir of the impact and influence Fred Farris has on his family.
From his humble upbringing in St. Louis to his successful rise in Kansas
City, Fred has influenced his family and inspired them in their
challenges.
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How One Man Changed the World Through His Family
This book was presented to Fred Farris on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Created by his son-in-law, the collection of family remembrances represents a memoir of the impact and influence Fred Farris has on his family.
From his humble upbringing in St. Louis to his successful rise in Kansas
City, Fred has influenced his family and inspired them in their
challenges.
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HONEY! IT TURNED TO SUGAR!
Dealing With Granulated Honey
Honey is the only food that will never spoil. However, honey will crystalize or granulate, a process that some people like to say, "My honey turned to sugar!" Well, rest assured, the honey didn't turn into anything. It's still honey. The natural, and eventual process of granulation is easily reversed with a source of heat, preferably at low temperatures. The warmth will return the granulated honey back into liquid honey. Store-brand honey, pasteurized for a longer shelf-life, gives naturally produced, local raw honey a bad name as store-brand honey seldom granulates. Unpasteurized honey and local raw honey will granulate faster, thus confusing customers. Click Here
Dealing With Granulated Honey
Honey is the only food that will never spoil. However, honey will crystalize or granulate, a process that some people like to say, "My honey turned to sugar!" Well, rest assured, the honey didn't turn into anything. It's still honey. The natural, and eventual process of granulation is easily reversed with a source of heat, preferably at low temperatures. The warmth will return the granulated honey back into liquid honey. Store-brand honey, pasteurized for a longer shelf-life, gives naturally produced, local raw honey a bad name as store-brand honey seldom granulates. Unpasteurized honey and local raw honey will granulate faster, thus confusing customers. Click Here
"Advanced Bee Culture" (reprint of W. Z. Hutchinson's classic) Click Here
"Success and Happiness, Winning at Work and Home: The Race is Not Always to the Swift" Click Here
Introduction to my book list:
Have you ever wanted to keep honeybees and become a bee keeper? Maybe you saw an ad in the newspaper for “bees for sale,” or you saw some beekeepers at the local farmers market selling organic honey.
Perhaps you read about local raw honey and wanted the benefit of honey for health. Perhaps you wanted to study apiculture and establish an apiary (so you can be called an apiarist!).
Or you’ve always wanted to get into the bee removal business for nervous homeowners demanding that you, “get rid of bees.”
Since 1981, I’ve been a beekeeper. I sell bee products. I tell bee facts. I’ve done bee hive removal. I’ve endured thousands of stings and owned several honey extractors. One of my growing markets is for natural honey and comb honey. People buy my honey for allergies. I make my own bee hives and sell beekeeper supplies as well as teach beekeeping courses.
Every day (or so it seems) someone asks me how I got into beekeeping, how I decided to raise bees as well as produce my own queen honeybees. They ask me if I produce royal jelly. They want to know how many times I’ve been stung.
The conversation soon drifts to a timid request wondering if I would help them start raising honey bees. Would I mentor them? Do I have any used beekeeping equipment for sale? How much does it cost to get started? Where can they buy bees? Do I have bees for sale?
In my books on beekeeping, I probe these kinds of questions. I share my experience (the good, the bad and the wonderful!) and hopefully give anyone who is thinking about keeping bees a little “heads up.”
I want to share how I got into this marvelous hobby called beekeeping, but also take the perspective of what I might have done differently. Hopefully, my experience will help you decide if beekeeping is for you, and if so, how you can make the most intelligent decisions on getting started.
I wrote these book from hundreds of inquiries, phone calls and e-mails from people interested in keeping honeybees. Everyone’s situation is different, everyone’s budget varies, and everyone’s level of commitment depends on a million different factors. There is no easy, single, one-size-fits-all answer...except my belief that, “Yes! You can keep bees.”
Here is a list of all my books. Thanks for your support!