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Autographing diaries before they get shipped. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Multi-Purpose Beginning Beekeeping Guide

The second edition of the award-winning “A Beekeeper’s Diary Self-Guide to Beekeeping” is now available.

The 310-page large print 8.5x11 inch paperback is available in print with black and white photos and ebook 70% color photos. The book covers the first 3 years of beekeeping and supports beginning beekeeping classes with helpful guides and checklists; stands alone as a helpful guide for those who can't make a beginning beekeeping class but still want to start keeping bees, and includes an extensive helpful index.

This 2nd edition includes 310 pages in large print for easy reading.(Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

A Beekeeper's Diary 2nd Edition is also now a study guide for Great Plains Master Beekeeping's (GPMB) online Apprentice to Journeyman test. The GPMB educational teach-the-teacher beekeeping program is out of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and is now including Missouri in their 7-state program.

Handy check lists guide beginning beekeepers through the options. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The beginning beekeeping book and diary includes basic beekeeping information and guides appropriate to Midwest states.

The diary also includes space for notes. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The diary retails for $34.95 and is available where most books are sold.

Autographed copies are available here.

If you are just starting your beekeeping journey, welcome!

Charlotte

A Beekeeper’s Diary 2nd Edition

Just in time for winter reading, “A Beekeepers'‘s Diary 2nd Edition” will be available through Amazon and other book retailers as well as Bluebird Gardens for autographed copies.

The book is based on 9 years of teaching beginning beekeeping and is approved by the Great Plains Master Beekeeping program out of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The book was my original master beekeeping project. I switched to writing a beginning beekeeping class that compliments the book when our state association wanted a basic class that helped to give beginning beekeepers the same consistent information.

The first edition of this book, published March 2021, won third place in the Independent Book Publisher’s Award in home and garden, an honor I am told considering this is an international competition.

The same information is in the second edition as well as a detailed index and more photos as well as detailed check lists to help new beekeepers.

Charlotte