Top-bar hives are becoming increasingly popular with beekeepers as they help encourage bees to colonize in a more natural way than Langstroth beehives. The horizontal top-bar hives have bars across ...

SNEADS FERRY | Longtime beekeeper Roland Reed has designed a new type of beehive that he believes will make it easy for anyone who wants to start managing honey bees. Reed’s new product, called the ...

We have decided what to do with the top bar hive for winter. We last examined it in mid-October to check out how much food it had. There’s 14 or 15 full size combs drawn out. The four in front had ...

Quick Overview Do you currently have a hive or do you you plan to start one in 2013? Do you prefer alternative, natural comb methods such as horizontal Top Bar Hives or Warre Hives? If so, this class ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The sticky process of harvesting honey is a matter of preference — or taste. Depending on the beekeeper’s choice of hive, a harvest may involve the use of a ...

As backyard beekeeping continues to rise in popularity, there’s no reason the traditional beehive can’t take on a more modern and functional design. With this idea in mind, Duluth-based Jon Otis of ...

Kepha Miller a bee farmer at his bee hives at Kerito Nyamira County on 12/4/2021. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] Two years after setting up an apiary of 50 hives, Kepha Miller a bee farmer in Nyamira County ...