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Water & Wines 1000 Piece Puzzles
Regular price $70.00 Save $-70.00These are next-level jigsaw puzzles that take you on a journey through the world of wine. They are beautifully hand-illustrated, educational and sustainable.
First received as a gift for Christmas 2022, our queen bee was so obsessed with how stunning the puzzle was (thick cardboard with a lustrous matt finish and joyful to do) that she looked to buy the entire range. Finding that there were no stockists in Australia, she decided to stock them to spread the joy of Water & Wines puzzles.
A mindful and foolproof gift!
Carefully curated by a sommelier, Water & Wines Puzzles highlight the country’s key wine-producing regions, main grape varieties, and star appellations. The box also features our grape profiles, describing aromas, characteristics, and food pairing tips! Illustrated by hand, the designs were first hand-drawn, and then attentively reviewed, with the help of some of the top sommeliers in the world.
More than a puzzle, you will learn about wine of course, but also about geography as you start playing your way into the world of wine.
For every item sold Water & Wine will plant one tree and make a donation to improve global access to safe drinking water. We want to make puzzles you can feel good about.
Size: 1000 pieces
Puzzle dimensions: 48 x 68 cm
Poster dimensions: 48 x 68 cm
Box dimensions: 33 x 22.7 x 3.9 cm
Each puzzle comes with a full-size poster of our design and a box stand.
Made in the EU from locally-sourced recycled paper.
All Wrapped Up - Botanicals
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00All Wrapped Up is a series of gorgeous stationery books celebrating the work of Australia’s best and brightest artists.
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Includes 20 gift wrapping sheets (± 70cm x 50cm) and 2 sheets of stickers.
Botanicals showcases the unique flora of Australia as seen through the eyes of textile designer and illustrator Edith Rewa.
About the Author
Edith Rewa is an illustrator and textile designer. With a fondness for the native flora and fauna of the Australian bush, she illustrates to share a sense of reverence in our natural landscapes. Her works can be found on her luxurious silk scarves and art prints, on book covers, and on inspiration boards everywhere.
Spoonfuls of Honey - Hattie Ellis
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00Read more on Book Depository here.
Made from nectar concentrated down to a sweet stickiness by tens of thousands of bees working together in the hive, honey can be found all over the world.
Caribbean jerk, Spanish tapas, French sauces, British biscuits and Turkish cakes all gleam with the sweet stuff. It can take no more than a spoonful of honey to bring its deep flavour to a dish. As a marinade it enhances meat and poultry, and works particularly well with nuts and fruits, cream and cheese, and herbs and spices.
Join award-winning author Hattie Ellis in the kitchen as she shares over 80 recipes covering meals throughout the day, snacks, sweets, puddings, sauces and drinks. From Honeyed Chicken and Aubergine Biryani and Honey Sauce Vierge to Honey, Apple and Rosemary Jelly and Sicilian Honey Balls (Sfingi), Hattie explores different flavours and varieties of honey from around the world.
Spoonfuls of Honey also explains what to consider when buying and storing honey, gives tips on its use in your cooking, examines the benefits to your health and includes the role bees and honey play in nature.
Chapters include: What is Honey?; A-Z of honey; A-Z of honeybees; Honey in the kitchen; How to buy and store honey; How to taste honey; Honey and health; Honey and the natural world; Around the world in 90 pots.
Recipe chapters include: Breakfast and brunch; lunch and supper; Snacks, sides and sauces; Teatime baking; Puddings; Preserves, Sweets and drinks
Delicious Daily
Regular price $44.95 Sale price $22.50 Save $22.45At delicious. magazine, we believe there are few things more wonderful than eating incredible home-cooked food. But when it comes to actually preparing a meal each evening, the pressures of everyday life can certainly take the joy out of the task itself. We created this book to update your weekly recipe rotation, with hacks to make every dish quicker, easier, or more delicious.
Get your week off to an excellent start with make-ahead breakfasts you'll look forward to, then embrace the meat-free-Monday trend with vegetarian meals everyone will enjoy. Master pastry and dough for the easiest-ever pizza, then learn simple tricks that are essential for an easy week. As the weekend draws near, we have one-pot offerings that mean zero hassle, the nourishing goodness of broths, and new ideas to make sure you're never caught off guard by a 'bring-a-plate' invitation again. And let's not forget clever desserts using simply a bowl and spoon. The only fancy thing here is the flavour!
This book is your key to make it delicious, every single day.
All Wrapped Up - Australia
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00All Wrapped Up is a series of gorgeous wrapping paper books celebrating the work of Australia’s best and brightest artists.
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Australia celebrates native flora, fauna and kitsch as seen through the joy-filled print and colour prism of illustrator Alice Oehr.
About the Author
Alice Oehr is an illustrator and designer from Melbourne. Her distinct colourful style reflects her love of food, pattern, collage and drawing. Her ideas have made their way onto textiles, books, shop windows, homewares and once even a series of 6-feet-tall Ancient Egyptian–style statues. Alice draws both for business and for pleasure, in both pixels and pencils, which has led her to teaching, speaking and writing on the subject.
Donna Hay Everyday Fresh
Regular price $44.95 Sale price $25.00 Save $19.95From Australia's bestselling and most trusted cook comes a stunning new book featuring super-fresh, super-fast recipes to help you feel nourished and energised ... and ready to savour life.
'One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I still cook at home. The answer is yes. Absolutely. As often as possible.'
There are days when it feels as though there's barely time to eat dinner, let alone prepare it. Donna knows on days like these, we all need a little Everyday Fresh in our lives. We all want to create delicious meals packed with flavour and everything that's good for us, with a minimum of fuss. And that's exactly what Donna Hay delivers. 'Simple made special' is the foundation of almost every recipe Donna has ever written. She's all about the classics, but also about a flexible, fresher approach to eating. She's constantly on the lookout for ways to make something easier, healthier, quicker or a little more on-trend - and she also loves a cheat, a quick-fix or anything that can be made in one bowl, that still tastes great.
'If I can create a dish that makes someone feel better because it's mouth-wateringly delicious, packed with nourishing vegetables, or helps them bring a little more balance to their life - that's success!'
All Wrapped Up - Spirit
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00All Wrapped Up is a series of gorgeous stationery books celebrating the work of Australia’s best and brightest artists.
Spirit by Rachael Sarra showcases modern Indigenous art, as seen through the eyes of designer and illustrator Rachael Sarra.
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Includes 20 gift wrapping sheets (± 70cm x 50cm) and 2 sheets of stickers.
About the Author
Rachael Sarra is an artist and designer whose work is an extension of her being and experiences. As a contemporary Aboriginal artist from Goreng Goreng Country, Rachael uses art as a powerful tool in storytelling to educate and share Aboriginal culture and it's evolution. Rachaels work often challenges and explores the themes of societies perception of what Aboriginal art and identity is.
Bee Friendly Garden - Easy Ways to help the Bees - Doug Purdie
Regular price $39.99 Save $-39.99Dream Big Gift Set
Regular price $75.00 Sale price $55.00 Save $20.00A fabulous gift pack is for the dreamer / the entrepreneur / the change maker or the disillusioned in your life. This pack contains:
1 x Dream Big by Bob Goff (Hardcover)
1 x 15cm Solid Pillar to light, relax and read the book by
Dream Big author, Bob Goff, is the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does and Everybody, Always. In this grounded and practical book, Bob takes you on a life-proven journey to rediscover your dreams and turn them into reality. He is on a mission to help people recapture the version of their lives they dreamed about before fear started calling the shots.
Based on his enormously popular Dream Big workshop, Bob shows how to
Dream Big is the only book you need to uncover the wild and exciting dream for your life you’ve hidden from yourself--and help you take the steps necessary to achieve it.
Read an excerpt of the Bob Goff's Dream Big in Living Magazine here.
At Home (Honey & Co) Gift Set
Regular price $95.00 Sale price $75.00 Save $20.00A fabulous gift pack for the foodie in your life. This pack contains:
1 x Honey & Co cookbook
1 x Jam Jar Tealights (2 Jars, 8 x candles)
1 x Spencer Cocoa Dark Chocolate
Everything you need for a plethora of beautiful nights in. Fire up a Queen B Jam Jar Tealight candle and then delve into At Home, brought to you by the award-winning chefs behind the Honey & Co. empire, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich present simple and delicious Middle Eastern dishes that are easy to make and a pleasure to serve.
From breads to bakes, salads to sweets, there is something for everyone in this celebration of Middle Eastern cooking. Wholesome, fresh and seasonal ingredients are organised into chapters For Us Two, For Friends, For the Weekend, For a Crowd and The Kitchen.
Enjoy authentic recipes like Jerusalem sesame bread filled with harissa and lemon chicken, tuck into a crisp salad with saffron-poached pears with walnut tahini, or delight in a fish pastilla or a rabbit stifado, among many more. The mouth-watering recipes featured in this book are quick and simple to make.
Plant Trees, Sow Seeds, Save the Bees - Nicola Bradbeer
Regular price $20.00 Save $-20.00A short call-to-arm guide to protect essential bees and other stripy insects, for fans of Dave Goulson and BBC's Spring Watch. Proceeds will go to Bees for Development charity. Foreword by Kate Humble.
Our stripey friends need you!
Bees, wasps, hoverflies and other stripey insects are essential to keeping us, and our planet, alive.
Discover the simple ways you can help them thrive in all green spaces - from gardens to window boxes and pots - with insect champion Nicola Bradbear, from Bees for Development charity.
There are lots of fun things you can do whatever space you have. And these acts of kindness will all make a big difference.
With every book sold, proceeds will be donated to Bees for Development
About the Author
Based in Monmouth, UK, Bees for Development works in over fifty countries advocating simple methods for beekeeping to support essential biodiversity, and to provide sustainable incomes for families in remote locations. Nicola Bradbear PhD has worked for International Bee Research Association and the Bee Research Unit at Cardiff University before founding Bees for Development in 1993. She isalso a beekeeper.
The Shamanic Way of the Bee - Simon Buxton
Regular price $27.00 Save $-27.00Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings • Examines the healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and the hive • Reveals bee shamanism’s system of acupuncture, which predates the Chinese systems • Imparts teachings from the female tradition and explores the transformative powers of the magico-sexual elixirs they produce Bee shamanism may well be the most ancient and enigmatic branch of shamanism. It exists throughout the world–wherever in fact the honeybee exists. Its medicinal tools–such as honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly–are now in common usage, and even the origins of Chinese acupuncture can be traced back to the ancient practice of applying bee stings to the body’s meridians. In this authoritative ethnography and spiritual memoir, Simon Buxton, an elder of the Path of Pollen, reveals for the first time the richness of this tradition: its subtle intelligence; its sights, sounds, and smells; and its unique ceremonies, which until now have been known only to initiates.
Buxton unknowingly took his first steps on the Path of Pollen at age nine, when a neighbor–an Austrian bee shaman–cured him of a near-fatal bout of encephalitis. This early contact prepared him for his later meeting with an elder of the tradition who took him on as an apprentice. Following an intense initiation that opened him to the mysteries of the hive mind, Buxton learned over the next 13 years the practices, rituals, and tools of bee shamanism. He experienced the healing and spiritual powers of honey and other bee products, including the “flying ointment” once used by medieval witches, as well as ritual initiations with the female members of the tradition–the Mellisae–and the application of magico-sexual “nektars” that promote longevity and ecstasy.
The Shamanic Way of the Bee is a rare view into the secret wisdom of this age-old tradition.
The Little Book of Bees: An Illustrated Guide to the Extraordinary Lives of Bees - Hilary Kearney
Regular price $20.00 Save $-20.00Bees continue to fascinate and charm us all – from novice gardeners and nature-lovers to dedicated environmentalists – and today, bees need our help more than ever. Discover the story of these incredible creatures, with The Little Book of Bees. Bees first appeared on Earth an incredible 130 million years ago. Since the time of the dinosaurs, evolution has taken our beloved bees on an incredible journey – and today, there are 20,000 species on the planet. The Little Book of Bees is a lovely, informative book of all things bee – from evolution and communication, to honey, beekeeping, and saving the bees – all in a beautifully illustrated gift book. Contents Chapter One: The Story of Bees The Evolution of the Bee The Bee Life Cycle The Bee Family Tree Bee Anatomy Bee Nesting Behaviours Bee Factoids Chapter Two: Superorganisms Sociality in Bees Bumble Bees Honey Bees Stingless Bees Chapter Three: Honey What is Honey? Types of Honey Practical Uses for Honey Honey Healthcare Chapter Four: Beekeeping Why Keep Bees? An Introduction to Beekeeping Keeping Stingless Bees Chapter Five: Protecting Our Bee Buddies Why Are Bees in Decline? Supporting Our Bees in 10 Easy Steps Providing a Home for Bees
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & the Horse - Charlie Mackery
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00A reminder of what truly matter, as told through the adventures of four beloved friends. Based on Charlie’s daily Instagram. For fans of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Little Book of Wisdom.
A book of hope for uncertain times.
The conversations between the four characters in this book – the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse – have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, turned into tattoos, they inspire parents and grandparents, comfort children, cheer people who feel lonely, are grieving, need courage, or a reminder that they are not alone and to keep going when life is hard.
Enter the world of Charlie Mackesy’s creations, these four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most poignant and universal life lessons. The book includes Charlie’s most loved illustrations and new ones too.
About the Author
Artist Charlie Mackesy was born during a snowy winter in Northumberland. He has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis for Comic Relief, and Nelson Mandela on lithograph project, ‘The United States’. His first exhibition for the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse was in London in November 2018. Charlie lives in South London with his two dogs.
Langstroth's Hive & the Honey-Bee - L.L. Langstroth
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00This influential guide by the Reverend L. L. Langstroth, ""the father of modern beekeeping,"" revolutionized the practice of beekeeping. Originally published in 1853, his work constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management - its innovations allowed people to engage in actual beekeeping, rather than simply handling bee domiciles and extracting the honey.
This book explains and illustrates techniques still employed 150 years later - including the author's patented invention, a movable frame hive that quickly spread into common use around the world.In his reader-friendly, nontechnical style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker; bee-hives; and the handling of bees. An infectious sense of wonder and enthusiasm suffuses Langstroth's accounts of natural and artificial swarming, the production of honey and wax, and the best methods of feeding bees and maintaining an apiary.
The manual abounds in practical and intriguing insights attained through the years of observation and experience, including ""the kindness of bees to one another,"" ""their infatuation for liquid sweets,"" and ""the warning given by bees before stinging.""This version of Langstroth's ever-popular manual is the fourth and final edition; it incorporates the author's own revisions and remains an unsurpassed resource for beekeepers.
In Her Footsteps - Lonely Planet
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women’s activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi’s summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting sites of suffragette heroes Sylvia Pankhurst and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the creative workrooms of Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf, and the tennis courts where the Williams sisters first learned to play – we showcase female pioneers whose lives and actions continue to inspire today.
In Her Footsteps is not only a celebration of incredible women, but a travel guide to the places where they studied, lived, worked, reigned and explored. We’ll tell you where to find the secret feminist history of sites around the world. Activists include: Emily Wilding Davison, Epsom Downs, UK Rosa Luxemburg, Berlin, Germany Jane Goodall, Gombe, Tanzania Greta Thunberg, Stockholm, Sweden Manuela Saenz, Quito, Ecuador Rosa Parks, Alabama, USA Icons include: Michelle Obama, Chicago, USA Catherine the Great, Moscow, Russia Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaica Catherine de’ Medici, Chenonceaux, France Empress Dowager Cixi, Beijing, China Artists include: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Utopia, Australia Jane Austen, Chatsworth, UK Zaha Hadid, Baku, Azerbaijan Nadine Gordimer, Johannesburg, South Africa Patti Smith, New York City, USA Trailblazers include: Jacinda Ardern, Wellington, New Zealand Marie Curie, Warsaw, Poland Cornelia Sorabji, Pune, India Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Everest, Nepal Beryl Markham, Rift Valley, Kenya About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973.
Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make your Own Soap, Candles & Balms - Petra Ahnert
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00Modern beekeepers - take notice! Here we have the answer to one of the most common questions related to beekeeping: what do I do with all of this beeswax? In fact, the possibilities are seemingly endless! As beeswax has multiple holistic and decorative uses, projects can vary from beauty and health products to household items. Beeswax Alchemy is your first step towards using excess beeswax to make beautiful, useful gifts for friends, family, and even yourself.
It offers a basic introduction to the art of extracting and purifying beeswax, as well as countless ideas for what to make with it. These include skin care creams, candles, and other home products like beeswax ornaments and wax fabric. So, get ready to suit up and collect some beeswax. There's so much that you can do with it - and now you know how!
About the Author
Petra Ahnert is the creative force behind Beehive Alchemy, a growing artisan soap, body care, and home goods business. After a serendipitous meeting with a beekeeper at the library in 2002, Petra soon had a couple hives of her own and extra honey to sell. Of course, with the honey, comes beeswax, too so she sought out ways to make good use of the wax she had on hand. Since that time, Petra has first looked to her own life and products she uses to replace them with items she could make herself with the honey and beeswax she had on hand. Eventually, those products made their way into the product line-up for Beehive Alchemy.
BeeKeepers Lament
Regular price $28.00 Save $-28.00“You’ll never think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their labors the same way again.” —Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America’s foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honeybee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role that honeybees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of our food chain, and the very future of the nation. With an intimate focus and incisive reporting, in a book perfect for fans of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire,and John McPhee’s Oranges, Nordhaus’s stunning exposé illuminates one the most critical issues facing the world today,offering insight, information, and, ultimately, hope.Beekeepers Bible
Regular price $70.00 Save $-70.00Beehive Alchemy - Petra Ahnert
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00From crayons to cough drops, cookies to candles, Beehive Alchemy offers a comprehensive introduction to incorporating the miracle of bees into everyday life. Beehive Alchemy is a continuation of Petra Ahnert’s best-selling Beeswax Alchemy.
With this new book, beekeepers (and bee lovers) will learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, you’ll find instructions to make Ahnert’s award-winning hand-dipped birthday candles, the classic French dessert canele bordelais, and much more, including: Alchemy for the Body Liquid soap with honey Beard balm Olive and honey lotion Alchemy of Light Taper candles Tea lights Pillars Alchemy for the Home Furniture polish Waxed cotton food wraps Woodcutter incense Alchemy in the Studio Beeswax crayons Encaustic Batik Alchemy in the Kitchen Cookies and candies Beverages Fermentations Whether you keep bees or just love them, Beehive Alchemy will become your go-to comprehensive guide for hive-to-home creations.
A Honey Bee Heart has Five Openings - Helen Jukes
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00Sam Bloom - Heartache & Birdsong
Regular price $32.95 Sale price $22.95 Save $10.00'If Penguin Bloom was Cameron's love letter to his wife Sam, Sam Bloom: Heartache and Birdsong is Sam's unflinching and inspirational reply. This family's remarkable story never ceases to both move and motivate me.' - Andrew Lincoln
The heart-warming Australian story Penguin Bloom - the miraculous tale of a baby magpie that helped save a young mother and her family - is a home grown and international bestseller; and a major Hollywood movie, starring Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln. Sam's personal message at the end of the book has resonated powerfully with readers - where, pulling no punches, she writes about what it is really like to face life in a wheelchair.
In Sam Bloom, Sam tells her own story for the first time - how a shy but determined Australian girl became a nurse and travelled across Africa. How she fell in love with a like-minded free spirit, raised three boys and built a life together on Sydney's Northern Beaches. And then, in a single horrific moment, how everything changed. Sam's journey back from the edge of death and the depths of despair is so much more than an account of overcoming adversity. Sam's captivating true story - written by close friend, New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and featuring extraordinary photographs taken by Sam's husband, Cameron Bloom - is humbling, heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure.
A triumph of raw emotion and incredible beauty, Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong is a truly unforgettable book.
That's Not my Bee - Fiona Watt
Regular price $15.00 Save $-15.00A delightful addition to the best-selling 'That's Not My' ... series. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages, touching the feely patches and spotting the familiar little white mouse as they look for their bee.
About the Author
Fiona Watt has authored over 70 titles for Usborne. She completed a Bachelor of Education (Hons), specialising in art and design at Exeter University. After university she worked as a writer and researcher, and then as a teacher in Britain and the Netherlands. She joined Usborne Publishing as an assistant editor in 1989 and is currently the Editorial Director. Fiona lives in London.
About the Illustrator
Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover. She lives in Devon with her family and her pets and believes in the magic of animals. Rachel grew up in Devon but lived in London in her twenties working in marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescued cat, Albert. After having a child she moved back to Devon and decided to take the plunge and juggle motherhood with writing.She has always wanted to write and found her voice in her first novel, 'Alfie the Doorstep Cat'. She has always had cats as pets, ever since a young child.
Rachel is delighted to have been able to combine her two main passions at last. 'Alfie the Holiday Cat' is her fourth book.
The Secret Life of Bees - Moira Butterfield/Vivienne Mineker
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00Follow Buzzwing the honeybee on a beautifully illustrated journey through the world of bees filled with amazing science and intriguing folklore.Welcome to my honey hive home. It’s where I live with my family. I’m small and fuzzy and striped black and gold. I’m Buzzwing the hard-working honeybee! Did you know that bees love to dance? Or that they have an amazing sense of smell to help them find the best flowers? In The Secret Life of Bees, Buzzwing shares with you all the details of her life as a bee, in and out of the hive, starting with the day she was born. Sumptuous and detailed illustrations have pride of place in this magical guide to bees that mixes natural history with a splash of fantasy – a book to be pored over time and again.
The Little Book of Bees: Buzzy Wit & Wisdom
Regular price $20.00 Save $-20.00Humans and bees have enjoyed a close relationship for millennia, and the entries in this book reflect at least two thousand years of fascination with the world's favourite insect. Packed full of science, history, folklore and quotes - all about the bee.
Listen to the bees.
The Contented Bee - Organic Garderner Magazine
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00All the buzz on keeping backyard bees - an informative and inspirational handbook full of advice, experience and stories from experts and enthusiasts.
With bees worldwide in deadly peril, Australians are keen to lend a helping hand. Keeping a hive or three has become a popular lifestyle trend - and it's more achievable than you might think.
Whether you're in the inner city, suburbs or on acreage, keeping bees can be easy, low-fuss and fun for the whole family to get involved in - imagine bottling your very own honey! This lively guide features inspirational experiences and gorgeous photos from scores of enthusiasts across Australia who have sweetened their lives by keeping bees.
Practical chapters by a range of experts give the low-down on getting started, caring for your bees, harvesting your honey and wax (with recipes), troubleshooting, what to plant to help out your little workers, and great information on the popular option of keeping native stingless bees.
The Contented Bee will inspire you to help out the bees - and enrich your own life, too!