Archive for the ‘Top Bar Hive’ Category

Top Bar Hive: Chop and Crop

Phil Chandler explaining the Chop and Crop method of taking a standard frame into a Top Bar Hive. See more information about Natural Beekeeping and Horizontal Top Bar Hives at www.biobees.com.

How to do a quick check on a top bar hive

www.biobees.com Phil Chandler – The Barefoot Beekeeper – demonstrates how to do a quick inspection of a top bar hive using his two-follower system.

NUC on Top Bar Hive

NUC on Top Bar Hive entrances with lots of bee activity.

Fred Nicoles Top Bar Hive

Fred Nicoles discusses the top bar hives he makes for sale.

Installing bees into a top bar hive

This is an installation after I cut a nice feral hive out of someone’s wall, I’m using my own designed frames for cut outs top bar hives don’t use frames but frames are sure handy during a cut-out! You can check out my Bee Blog @ tbh-bees.blogspot.com