An economical approach to top bar beekeeping, our new Top Bar Hive Kit will get you started! This hive is built from precision-milled pine and simple to assemble. The kit is easy on your back and on your wallet!

It includes:

• Follower board with feeding port
• 28 top bars
• Corrugated roof for ventilation

It measures 33 3/8 inches by 51 13/16 inches by 30 7/8 inches

Assembly required, includes nails and easy-to-follow instructions.

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Please allow two weeks for delivery. Available for shipment to continental U.S. addresses only.

You can start a new colony with our 10-Frame Complete Hive Kit! This hive kit is fantastic for those who want to start beekeeping as a hobby and amateur beekeepers who want to expand their beeyard.

The kit includes:

• 9⅝-inch assembled hive body
• 10 9⅛-inch assembled frames with natural waxed Rite-Cell Foundation
• Telescoping cover with inner cover, assembled
• Bottom board with reducer, assembled

FREE SHIPPING!

Please allow two weeks for delivery. Available for shipment to continental U.S. addresses only.

You can start a new colony with our 10-Frame Complete Hive Kit! This hive kit is fantastic for those who want to start beekeeping as a hobby and amateur beekeepers who want to expand their beeyard.

The kit includes:

• 9⅝-inch assembled hive body, painted
• 10 9⅛-inch assembled frames with natural waxed Rite-Cell Foundation
• Telescoping cover with inner cover, assembled and painted
• Bottom board with reducer, assembled and painted

FREE SHIPPING!

Please allow two weeks for delivery. Available for shipment to continental U.S. addresses only.

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants — such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries — and simply don’t mow down abundant native species, including aster, goldenrod, and milkweed. 100 Plants to Feed the Bees will empower homeowners, landscapers, apartment dwellers — anyone with a scrap of yard or a window box — to protect our pollinators.

Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony collapse disorder poses a serious threat to many plants that rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling top bar beekeepers to produce honey and natural wax while helping bees thrive now and in the years ahead.

Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping picks up where author Christy Hemenway’s The Thinking Beekeeper left off, providing a wealth of information for backyard beekeepers ready to take the next step with this economical, bee-friendly approach. Hemenway shares:

• Guidance and techniques for the second season and beyond
• An in-depth analysis of the dangers climate change and conventional agriculture present to pollinators
• An inspiring vision of restoring bee populations through organic farming and natural, chemical-free beekeeping

While continuing to emphasize the intimate connection between our food system, bees, and the well-being of the planet, Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping breaks new ground in the quest to shift the dominant agricultural paradigm away from chemical-laden, industrial monoculture and toward healthy, diverse local farming. See what all the buzz is about with this must-read guide for the new breed of thinking beekeeper.

Tony Pisano's step-by-step illustrated instructions show you how to build everything you need, including hive bodies, supers, covers, hive stands, frames, swarm catchers, feeders, and more.

Learn natural beekeeping from Europe's foremost beekeeping authority. Georges de Layens, inventor of the world's most popular horizontal hive, shares a lifetime of experience on how to get started in simplified beekeeping; choose the best hive model for you and your bees; manage your hives with just two visits per year; take advantage of horizontal hives and deep frames, and much more.

Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities features everything an urbanite needs to know to start keeping bees: how to select the perfect hive, how to buy bees, how to care for a colony, how to harvest honey, and what to do in the winter. Urban beekeeping has particular challenges and needs, and this book highlights the challenges and presents practices that are safe, legal and neighbor-friendly.

The text is rounded out with profiles of urban beekeepers from all over the world, including public hives at the Maryland Center for Horticulture; beekeeping on an office balcony in Melbourne, Australia; and a poolside hive at a hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.

At the center of every beehive is the queen been. Can you find her?

This fun and informational book includes 48 search-and-find challenges that will improve any bee enthusiast’s queen spotting ability.

Though she rarely leaves the hive, the queen bee’s days are marked by dramatic events, from battles for dominance in the virgin death match to aerial romance in a cloud of drones.

Follow urban beekeeper and swarm catcher Hilary Kearney on a trip deep inside the golden, fragrant, buzzing hive for a vivid exploration of the queen bee’s fascinating life and domain.

Take the queen spotting challenge! Can you find the Queen?

Learn how to plan a hive, acquire bees, install a colony, keep bees healthy, prevent new diseases, harvest honey crops and more. You’ll also find useful information on colony life, colony-collapse disorder, honey bee anatomy and behavior, and apiary equipment and tools.