Top bar hive

55 Gallon Top Bar Barrel Bee Hive: FPS combines my passion for hunting and wildlife conservation with the overall need for self sufficiency.

The top bar hive offers a number of important advantages, particularly to the homesteader or small-scale beekeeper. One key advantage is the ease ...

Yesterday a small group of friends got together to install Kittie and Chucks bees in their new Top Bar hives! I'd only seen one of these hiv...

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Discover the benefits, management, and pros and cons of top bar hives. We help you decide if this horizontal hive is worth a spot in your bee yard.

This is a simple guide for the homesteader who wishes to keep bees for the sheer joy of it without spending the earth on vast amounts of equipment. For those wishing to hear a little more about more reasons for using this sort of hive then please take a look at my

The original Kenyan top bar hive was introduced by the ‘Bees for Development’ programme. It is easily made with cheap local materials in African countries.

Top Bar Hive Construction Dennis Murrell Wyoming This is the plan for my Top Bar Hive. The sides consist of three 1"x6"s. The bottom consist of two...

A top bar beehive is a single story hive that uses bars instead of frames. You can find top bar beehives for sale from reputable online retailers such as Bee Built and Mann Lake.

A Nuc is a hive in miniature and can house a functioning colony of bees. Our Nuc is about half the size of our full hive. The Nuc can be a temporary home for the bees, whether you just caught a swarm or made a split from your hive. The intent of the temporary home in the nuc is to transfer the colony from the Nuc into a full hive, so that the colony has time to fully fill out a regular size hive.

The top bar hive has emerged as a popular alternative to the Langstroth for people who are looking to avoid heavy lifting and/or enjoy a more natural approach to beekeeping.

The Homestead Top Bar Hive acts as a hollow log, giving bees a more natural habitat. It is the ideal beehive for the backyard beekeeper and for those seeking a more self-sufficient, self-reliant lifestyle. The new design from Cottage Craft Works Sustainable Living General Store is far superior to the traditional square box style.

In our desire to live separated from the world, we need methods of food preservation; and one of the methods is via sugar. One of most practical ways we could obtain sugar is from honey, which of course comes from bees. Well, in our hopes to be able to produce honey, for its preservation use and for its health benefits, we needed a bee hive. We had heard top-bar hives were better than regular stacked hives, in ease of use for us and the bees; and so rather than purchase one, I found a design…

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6 November 2014 The Short Answer (TSA) The Kenyan Top-Bar Hive is a variation of the horizontal top-bar Hive. The Kenyan’s name is often abbreviated with the acronym, “KTBH.” In nature, a colony of…

I was looking for a natural way to keep bees that required no heavy lifting with very low costs.

Designing Your Ideal Horizontal Top-Bar Hive - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Description and comparisons of the benefits (or not) of many of the options you could choose to incorporate into a horizontal top-bar hive. Written by a small scale manufacturer of top-bar hives and natural beekeeper.

The Cathedral Hive, The Golden Mean Hive and the Original BackYard Hive. All hives come fully assembled, handcrafted from local and sustainable wood sources. Top Bar Hives designed by Corwin Bell.