Urban Beekeeper

At a time when the UK bee population is in decline theres no better way to make a difference than to start up your own beehive. Steve Benbows enormous success with urban beekeeping shows how easy it is to keep bees whether youre in the city or in the countryside a beginner or an experienced beekeeper and youll never look back once youve tasted your very own sticky golden honey or lit a candle made from the beeswax from your beehive. Steve Benbow is a visionary beekeeper who started his first beehive ten years ago on the roof of his tower block in Bermondsey and today runs 30 sites across the city. His bees live atop the Tate Modern and Tate Britain Fortnum & Mason and the National Portrait Gallery and he supplies honey to the Savoy tearooms Harvey Nichols Harrods and delis across
London. His bees forage in parks cemeteries along railway lines and in window boxes and because of the diversity of the plants and trees in the city produce far richer honey and greater yields than they would in rural areas. The Urban Beekeeper is a fact-filled diary and practical guide to beekeeping that follows a year in the life of Steve and his bees and shows how keeping bees and making your own delicious honey is something anyone can do. It is a tempting glimpse into a sunlit lifestyle that starts with the first rays of the morning and ends with the warm glow of sunset filled with oozing honeycomb recipes for sensational honey-based dishes and honey that tastes like sunshine. A hugely affectionate but practical diary of a beekeepers year and the immense satisfaction of harvesting your
own delicious honey. Read it and join the revolution.