The Library

The SFBA maintains a library of books and magazines, any of which would be helpful to beekeepers and those interested in bees.

The library is open during association meetings.

Materials may be borrowed by members.

View a list of all the materials currently in the library in HTML or as a PDF.

Downloads
(In PDF format.  Download Adobe Reader)


New & Exciting

Thanks to Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild two interesting books have been made available in PDF format. (Note: The books are dated and some restrictions apply, but none that should keep you from enjoying these texts.)

Click on the covers to access these classic volumes.

And be certain to look into these useful downloads:

A Comprehensive Equipment List For Beginning Beekeepers

Hive Inspection Sheet (from The Puget Sound Beekeepers Association)

Suggestions for the Beekeepers' Library

The Hopkins Method of Queen Rearing

San Francisco Health Code Sec. 51
Honeybees Are Not Wild And Potentially Dangerous Animals

Moving Hives

Some Information About Smokers

Swarm traps

16 pages of Beekeeping Tips

Tom Chester's Beekeeping Tips

Links
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Local Beekeeping Organizations:

Alameda County Beekeepers Association

Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild

Mount Diablo Beekeepers Association

Sonoma County Beekeepers

San Mateo Bee Guild

Marin County Beekeepers

Helpful Sites:

BEE-L listserv: Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

The Puget Sound Beekeepers Association

beesource.com

NOVA Online | Tales from the Hive

Bumblebees in San Francisco

beekeepinglink.com (an online clearing house for information and equipment)

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