This book is geared for people hoping to either support themselves with their bees, or at least use them as a profit-making small business and I'm more the eccentric hobbyist and bee lover, so I was not the targt market. Even so, I read the book hoping to gain some insights I could use. I did not "gel" well with the author's terse, borderline cranky, style of writing and I thought all his "advice" presupposed a lot of knowledge and skill and betrayed an utter intolerance for any methods other than his own. He managed to fill up tons and tons of pages, but useful information was sparse amid the plethora of words. Perhaps if I were more of a businesswoman and less of an inexperienced back-yard beekeeper, I would have gleaned more?