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Philip Chandler
I started keeping bees in conventional hives, and learned about boxes and frames and foundation, and how to treat bees for mites and diseases, and how to use this and that shiny, stainless steel gadget, all the while thinking that this didn't seem like the best way to be looking after a creature as wild and free as the honeybee.
My search for simplicity led me towards the top bar hive, and I set about building one. It worked - more or less - and I could see that it needed some improvements. After years of trial-and-error experiments, I settled on a design that seemed to work consistently, and have since continued to develop a working method that is bee-friendly as well as being practical and sustainable.
The Barefoot Beekeeper is an appeal to all beekeepers to re-think the way they practise their craft, and to look again at the way bees have been treated for the last 150 years, which - I believe - has led to the current crisis in bee health. This book will show you a more natural way to keep bees - allowing them to build their combs the way they choose, supporting their natural ability to guard against pests and diseases, and offering them a home free from synthetic chemicals and medications, in which they can learn to deal with their own problems.
You will have free support from members of the Natural Beekeeping Network at http://www.naturalbeekeeping.org to help you start in this fascinating and absorbing pastime.
The author's web site is http://www.biobees.com and you can find the free Barefoot Beekeeper podcast on iTunes and http://biobees.libsyn.com
All Books By This Author:
- The Barefoot Beekeeper
- by Philip Chandler
A revolutionary book about sustainable, chemical-free, 'natural' beekeeping.
The Barefoot Beekeeper challenges 'modern' beekeeping practices and proposes a new approach, which is accessible to almost everyone - even people with disabilities and mobility problems.
The author strips away all complications, showing how you can make everything you need yourself, even using recycled materials and simple hand tools: you do not need to buy any additional equipment at all.
Free support via the author's web site and forum at www.biobees.com
Some of the unsolicited feedback about this book:
"After reading The Barefoot Beekeeper I knew immediately I had found what I had been thinking about and searching for for years. It inspired me to immediately build several Top Bar hives and change my manner of keeping bees. ...read as much as you can about bees and beekeeping but do buy this one and follow it's suggested path." N, Spain
"...the best book out there as far as I'm concerned for those interested in pursuing sustainable beekeeping." MH, USA
"...a very helpful primer and a VERY inspiring discussion of sustainable beekeeping." CS
"...as an argument for sustainable beekeeping, the writing is unparalleled." G, UK
"In over 50 years of practical beekeeping, and with a large library of bee books, I have not previously come across such enlightenment, vision and commonsense in our Craft. Good for you, Phil- I believe you have changed the direction of beekeeping." DE, Devon
"I think this site is the best I have found to date. It is blowing the myth on beekeeping. We are going to build the TBH this weekend. To think I nearly blew a fortune on a National beehive. Its not about robbing every drop of honey from their hive. " D, Norfolk
- Genres: Gardening, Hobby & Craft, New Ideas, Educational
- The Barefoot Beekeeper's Guide to Swarming and Swarm Management
- by Philip Chandler
Swarming and the management of swarming occupies a good deal of the beekeeper's time and energy during spring and early summer.
This ebook explains, in simple language, why bees swarm and how we can use the swarming impulse to increase our stocks, or strengthen our existing stocks if we so choose.
This title is one of a series of 'Barefoot Beekeeper Guides' that will be published here at offthebookshelf.com
26pp A5 PDF file with full-colour illustrations.
- Genres: Gardening, General, Hobby & Craft, Science, Other Interests
- Secrets of Self-Empowerment
- by Philip Chandler
Secrets of Self-Empowerment is distilled from seven years of one-to-one and group work, presented as part of a rehabilitation program for people with disabilities returning to work.
Our clients were people who had suffered not just physical injuries, but severe blows to their self-confidence, and my job was to design and deliver courses that would re-empower them and restore their self-esteem.
The feedback from these courses was used to improve and refine our approach, and in many cases remarkable changes were experienced by the people who worked with this material.
Now, for the first time, the best of the program has been distilled into book form for personal use.
This book will help you discover aspects of yourself that you may have suspected were there, but have never fully explored.
It will help you build powerful self-confidence, built on unshakable foundations.
It is designed to be practical, with a minimum of theory and only a sprinkling of philosophy.
Secrets of Self-Empowerment will help you to:
- develop trust in your own judgement
- achieve powerful self-confidence
- identify your strengths, skills and abilities
- banish many sources of stress
- motivate yourself - and other people
- make sound decisions based on your core values
- develop a clear, meaningful direction for your life
- become more fully the person you want to beOnly you know what is best for you, which is why you will not find me handing out advice on how to run your life. You will find me asking questions designed to provoke your thinking in a certain direction: you can choose whether or not this is the direction you want to go.
This book does not have magical powers - simply reading it will not change your life. You, however, do have magical powers: you can use your power of imagination to create an inspiring future for yourself and you can use the power of directed action to bring it to fruition.
You will learn how to put your past in its proper perspective and feel better about it - whatever it was like. You will learn how to deal effectively with whatever is happening in your life right now, and how to communicate more comfortably with other people - getting more of what you want and giving them more of what they want.You will also learn how to make sound decisions based on what is really important to you, and discover some of the clues to finding your true direction and purpose in life. In turn, this will help you to develop greater self-confidence and an increased capacity for enjoying life to the full.
You will find Secrets of Self-Empowerment full of new ways of looking at your thinking and your behaviour and noticing how they can be adjusted for better results - perhaps more easily than you ever thought possible.
- Genres: Health & Fitness, Motivation, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Weight Loss, Educational
