beekeeping

I'm a programmer, 15+ years, and I took up beekeeping.

Top bar hives are en vogue among the hippie beekeeping crowd - they are more common in third world beekeeping.

It was a serious matter destroying beekeeping back in it's day.

There's a whole host of laws and ordinances governing beekeeping.

I started beekeeping 2 years ago, and I cannot be any happier about this hobby.

I follow a beekeeping forum, and just yesterday there was a thread about some people noticing they had been on for 10+ years.

I've been beekeeping for 3 years now and I love it. Working with such programmable insects is almost like watching automata at work.

I got into beekeeping recently, and it's like this, except applied to everything.

Most, in fact almost all, beekeeping is industrial farming, equivalent to factory farming chickens or cattle.

It seems somewhat obvious how an engineering mindset transfers very well to other disciplines, and unbeknownst to me, beekeeping is one of them.

Is there a book/resource you'd recommend to people who know absolutely nothing about beekeeping but think it sounds terribly awesome and would like to know what it takes to get started?

It's inevitable that some enterprising beekeeping conglomerate will eventually produce a pesticide/neonic resistant bee.