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Das komplette Wissen in einem Hörbuch - Bestens vorbereitet und mit Freude Imker werden. Sind Sie fasziniert von den intelligenten Bienen und ihrer komplexen Organisation im Bienenvolk? Möchten Sie gerne etwas gegen das Bienensterben unternehmen, um das Ökosystem aufrecht zu erhalten? Wollen Sie lernen, Ihre eigenen fleißigen Bienen artgerecht zu halten und Ihren eignen leckeren Honig herzustellen? Dann haben Sie das perfekte Hörbuch gefunden. In diesem Ratgeber erfahren Sie wirklich alles, was Sie als Anfänger und Einsteiger zum Thema Imkern wissen müssen.

Hühnerhaltung für Einsteiger - das komplette Wissen in einem Hörbuch: Perfekt vorbereitet eigene Hühner halten und mit großer Freude die selbstgeschaffene Idylle genießen! Wollen Sie sich Ihren Traum erfüllen, eigene Hühner zu halten, wissen aber nicht, wie Sie am besten vorgehen sollen? Erfüllt Sie der Gedanke an glückliche Hühner, die voller Harmonie durch Ihren Garten laufen? Möchten Sie einen nachhaltigeren Lebensstil führen und über die Herkunft Ihrer Frühstückseier von nun an bestens Bescheid wissen? Dann haben Sie gerade genau das richtige Hörbuch gefunden.

高温や渇水が頻繁になり，穀物や野菜の生育に悪影響が増大．農業は温暖化に脆弱な「被害者」だ．その一方で，実は温室効果ガスを排出する「加害者」でもあることはあまり知られていない．

Preventable diseases are skyrocketing. One in three Americans is prediabetic. Even our brains are changing. HUNGER HIJACK is a blunt, pull-no-punches book by physician, author, and journalist Dr. David Sherer. In it, he reveals the evidence linking our diets and our ever-worsening health

Since The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens was first published in 2011, tens of thousands of people have discovered the joys and benefits of a backyard flock. Now Andy Schneider is back with The Chicken Whisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens, Expanded & Revised. Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources—and you can do it, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer teach you everything he knows and everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock!

Besides enjoying your new hobby, you also receive some of nature’s most beautiful gifts: sweet honey and nutritional beeswax. This beekeeping audiobook for beginners has been designed to educate someone who knows nothing about beekeeping and give them all the beekeeping essentials they need to get them to a level where they can understand what they need and how to get started. You will not regret purchasing this audiobook that will get you started on your beekeeping journey! This beekeeping quick guide will save you hours of research.

Have you ever wondered why honey bees are so vital to the health and vitality of our world? Join retired educator Howard Steel as he whimsically shares his passion for these amazing creatures and his experiences with beekeeping. Discover why these incredible producers are endangered and how we can help protect them with simple, personal lifestyle changes. Find out about the intricate and fascinating role of the honey bee in ecosystem pollination. Be inspired and learn how to start up your own hive right in your backyard!

Growing vegetables in a raised bed grid garden (a.k.a. square foot garden) is a great way to maximize your vegetable growing efforts, and at the same time dramatically reduce your workload. A grid garden is simple to assemble and operate. Growing in one-foot squares means that you can truly maximize your vegetable production in an environment that is great fun to operate and will assure a regular harvest of healthy vegetables. If you are growing vegetables in raised beds, then your production and crop rotation can be maximized by using the simple techniques employed in grid gardening.

A popular and respected blogger in Québec, Canada, Élise Desaulniers is a food ethics and animal rights advocate who is also interested in public policy, philosophy, and feminism. In Cash Cow, she takes a hard look at the dairy industry, and how it has persuaded the general public of the naturalness and value of cows’ milk in the human diet. Desaulniers asks just who really benefits from the promotion of dairy and just how effectively animal welfare and small farming operations can be protected in an age of consolidation and confinement.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

Flügelnah verfolgen Thomas Radetzki und Matthias Eckoldt die Prozesse im Bienenstaat. Sie schildern die sich wandelnden Rhythmen im Volk, die virtuose Kommunikation der Bienen und ihre fein abgestimmte Kooperation bei allen Handlungen. Als das erfolgreichste Unternehmen der Welt demonstrieren die Bienen, dass ein Gemeinwesen auf Dauer nur bestehen kann, wenn alle Beteiligten dabei gewinnen. Beispielgebend finden sie in ein Gleichgewicht des Nötigen und zeigen eine Alternative zu unserem Wachstumsstreben, dem nicht nur die Bienen zum Opfer zu fallen drohen.

Take a walk through the climate regions of the world and discover the effect of climate change on plants and how plants are coping in changing climatic conditions. As extreme weather conditions take over our planet, what will be their effect on plants? How can plants cope with these changing conditions? Which plants already survive in extreme and changing environments?

In Farm the City, Michael Ableman, the “Spartacus of Sustainable Food Activism”, offers a guide to setting up and running a successful urban farm, derived from the success of Sole Food Street Farms, one of the largest urban agriculture enterprises in North America. Sole Food Street Farms spans four acres of land in Vancouver, produces 25 tons of food annually, provides meaningful work for dozens of disadvantaged people, and has improved the surrounding community in countless ways.

Are you looking for guidance on how to raise and care for chickens of your own? Are you thinking of starting a little backyard homestead? If you're worried about the rising cost and availability of food, especially with all the supply chain issues, then perhaps you should consider raising chickens. I'll share my experiences with you so that you can learn from my experiences and use this as your guide to help you figure out just how to make your backyard into a chicken paradise. In this book, you'll find out how to make a chicken coop, how to take care of your chickens, and more.

If you have decided to raise chickens or are currently keeping some in your backyard, familiarizing yourself with the benefits can be very rewarding. You might have your own ideas already, but it shouldn't hurt to expand your knowledge on the pros of raising chickens at home.

This book is perfect for anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, Sustainable, this book provides listeners with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success.

A list of 100 chicken breeds and a description of each for beginners, going into raising chickens for eggs, raising chickens for meat, backyard hens, roosters, and their origin. Brown layers, colored layers, white layers, meat breeds, and more!

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges - especially climate change - that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted.

Have you ever thought of raising your own goats and taking one step closer to becoming self-sufficient? Even if you are a beginner with absolutely no prior knowledge about raising goats, this book will give you a complete A-to-Z breakdown to get you started! From topics ranging from choosing a goat breed to teaching you essential techniques to successfully raise healthy goats, you will be enjoying the fruits of your labor in no time: delicious and nutritious fresh goat milk. Hurry, your new adventure awaits!

Wenn man sich für die Haltung von Honigbienen interessiert und mit dem Gedanken spielt, die Imkerei als Hobby oder Beruf zu erlernen, kommen gerade am Anfang viele verschiedene Fragen auf. Diese beziehen sich sowohl auf die Biologie und das Leben der Honigbiene als auch auf die Tätigkeiten eines Imkers. In diesem Ratgeber sind alle wichtigen Informationen enthalten, darunter Antworten auf die Fragen: Was sind die ersten Schritte, wenn man mit dem Imkern beginnen möchte?