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A guide on how to purchase your first Top Bar beehive, beginner beekeeping shopping list, and the basic understanding to manage it. Find out why backyard beekeepers across the globe are choosing top bar hives!

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How to Build a Simple Top Bar Hive - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. Easy-to-follow instructions to make a simple, functional top bar hive for beekeeping the natural way. Compiled by Phil Chandler, author of The Barefoot Beekeeper, this book will get you started in beekeeping at the lowest possible cost! Packed with clear photographs and diagrams, almost anyone can build a top bar hive in a weekend - even if you have never done…

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I traded a colony of bees (in a Langstroth box) for a top bar hive at the start of the year, and placed the Langstroth box on top of the top bar hive with the idea that they would just migrate downwards onto the top bars. Anyway, if anyone is in the same situation, I'd recommend this approach rather than the "chop'n'crop" technique of trying to cut the comb off the frames and hanging it on the top bars.

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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.

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It’s Sara writing again! Recently, on Facebook, I saw a post about lifehacks, and it got me wondering: Why I haven’t seen more beekeeping hacks? I know they exist, but don’t they deserve their own spotlight—and genre!—in the world of lifehacking? If you agree and want to see some cool beekeeping tips, read on! Lifehacks are ingenious tricks that make everyday […]

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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

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a beekeeper is inspecting the honeycombs in his hive box, which he has placed on top of

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.

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Here is the plan for the Langpohl Top Bar Hive. It has been a great success here at Bello Uccello Honey Bee Sanctuary, with lots of brood, bees and honey. Although Klaus designed and drew the plans…

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the top bar bee hive is made from pallet wood and has a blue barrel underneath it

Make Your Own Honey Cow (Top Bar Bee Hive): More information: http://velacreations.com/bees.html More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/velacreations/sets/72157622528453587/ Beekeeping is an ancient DIY art, performed by amateurs and makers for centuries. Anyone can produce natural honey …

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Horizontal beehive similar to top bar hive. Manufactured from premium materials. Great design, innovative solutions. Round shape of the hive with round frames allow 180 degree rotation of frames to slow down varroa spread. Propolis envelope boost immunity and health of the whole colony.

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