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BackYardHive Beekeeping ShopThe Original BackYardHive - Top Bar Hive
The triangle top bars are specially designed and have a greater surface area Read more about our top bar hives here... (top bars are 14 1/2" in length) The Golden Mean Top Bar HiveThe Golden Mean top bar hive was developed by Corwin Bell after noticing how productive
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Top Bar Hive Plans -Build it Yourself! | |||
Pre-Built Top Bars for Your Self-Built Hive | |||
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NEW! If you choose to build your own hive based on our Top Bar Hive Plans (listed above) we suggest that you purchase these pre-made top bars. A set of top bars are offered as a package with the Hive Plans (please see above).
Our Top Bars are a "triangle" top bar, which allow the bees more surface area to attach their comb and as a result they draw straighter, more stable combs. The top bars are milled from hardwood. We have had excellent success with the bees drawing absolute straight comb on these new top bars that they are the only top bars we offer. Bar Dimensions: 1 3/8" width Golden Mean Top Bars (17 3/4" bars):
Hardware Only
NEW! Ventilated Roof for your Top Bar Hive
Price: Fully Assembled - $75.00 for either size hive: Fully Assembled -USA - Original BackYardHive Ventilated Roof Fully Assembled - International - Original BackYardHive Ventilated Roof BackYardHive Top Bar Tool We've created a new hive tool for the top bar! Finally a sturdy tool to scrap off comb and pry top bars loose all in one tool. Plus it looks class. We were feeling left out since there are so many tools to buy for the traditional hives we wanted a tool for the top bar hives! It's made of forged steel and brass.
Price: $32.00 Add to Cart: Within US | International 90-Degree Angled Top Bar Hive Tool -NEW!
The tool has 2 small metal beads welded on the bottom so that you can easily toe/heel step the tool across the floor in order to loosen any attachments at the bottom of the hive. The tool can also be used as an extra support when removing full combs as it can easily scoot underneath, acting as a seat when lifting the combs from the hive. Price: $24.00 Add to Cart: Within US
Bee Herding Tool -NEW!
We've created another new tool for the top bar! Instead of brushing your bees off a comb with a bee brush or grass, we "herd" them off of the comb when you use a brush. With the herding tool, you gently herd Price: $12.00 Add to Cart: Within US | International Insulation Panels for the Top Bar Hive -NEW!
Insulate your hive in the winter with these well-crafted insulation panels. The panels are made from pine and contain blue foam insulation. There are five parts: 2 panels to cover the sides of the hive and 2 panels for the front and back of the hive. Also included is a sheet of insulation to fit between the lid of your hive and your roof. The panels easily attach with latches and bungee cords (included). Golden Mean- Insulation Panels Add to Cart: Within US | International Original BackYardHive- Insulation Panels
NEW _ Hand-Blown Glass |
You will want to coat the tip of the triangle or "spine" of your Top Bars with melted beeswax. (Paraffin will not work). This encourages the bees to build comb on the spine/tip of the top bar. |
One single-1 ounce bar
Price: $2.00
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5 Bars of wax (Five 1 ounce bars)
Price: $10.00
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Handcrafted Honey Jar
A hand blown glass jar with a honey dipper. Handcrafted by a local Colorado artist, this jar
can be filled with your favorite local honey!
This beautiful jar will replace that little plastic squeeze bear on your kitchen table.
Hand-blown Glass Jar & Stir Stick & Natural Cork Topper
Price: $29.95
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(honey not included)
Beekeeping Protective Gear
These hooded bee suits and jackets are a lighter weight fabric but still offer the needed protection.
The veil is self supporting, two way zipper on hood veil, 2 layers of fabric on the hood, elastic writs and ankles all zippers are heavy duty.
Sizes tend towards men's sizes but you want the bee suit to
be roomie so go a size larger than you normally wear.
Prices:
Full Bee Suit $98.95 Within US International
Half Bee Suit (Jacket) $68.95 Within US International
Meshing to Strain Honeycomb
When harvesting your honeycomb use this meshing to strain the honey,
seperating the comb from the honey so you are left with a delicious
jar of honey! See our article "A Simple Harvest" to see this technique.
Price: $3.99 1’x 1’ square (fits a half gallon "Ball" jar, as seen above)
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Price: $5.99 2’x 2’ square (fits a 5 gallon bucket)
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Plastic Cover for insulation "Cozy Cover"
If you live in an area where the winters are cold and frequently snows you will
want to "winterize" your hive. We cover our hives in Colorado with a "Hive Cozy".
R19 (can be purchased at a hardware/lumber store) inserted into a large 'roofers
trash bag'. We are selling the bags at our cost (R19 insulation not included)
See our article "Keeping Your Bees Warm"
Bag Dimensions: 2 1/2' x 4 1/2' (fits two strips of R19 insulation)
Price: Hive Cosy plastic cover $4.00
BOOKS
The Practical Beekeeper _All Volumes
This book is about how to keep bees in a natural and practical system
where they do not require treatments for pests and diseases and only
minimal interventions. It is also about simple practical beekeeping. It
is about reducing your work. It is not a main-stream beekeeping book.
Many of the concepts are contrary to "conventional" beekeeping. The
techniques presented here are streamlined through decades of
experimentation, adjustments and simplification. The content was written
and then refined from responding to questions on bee forums over the
years so it is tailored to the questions that beekeepers, new and
experienced, have.
It is divided into three volumes and this edition contains all three:
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced.
[This item is on backorder until after holidays-check back then,
Volume 1 below is in stock]
Price: $49.00
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The Practical Beekeeper _Volume I
Beginning Beekeeping Naturally
This book is about how to keep bees in a natural and practical system
where they do not require treatments for pests and diseases and only
minimal interventions. It is also about simple practical beekeeping. It
is about reducing your work. It is not a main-stream beekeeping book.
Many of the concepts are contrary to "conventional" beekeeping. The
techniques presented here are streamlined through decades of
experimentation, adjustments and simplification. The content was written
and then refined from responding to questions on bee forums over the
years so it is tailored to the questions that beekeepers, new and
experienced, have.
It is divided into three volumes and this edition contains only Volume I:
Beginning Beekeeping Naturally.
Price: $17.00
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Wisdom of the Bees
Principles for Biodynamic Beekeeping
by Erik Berrevoets
An accessible and essential introduction to the urgent subject of holistic beekeeping practices.
While the benefits of Rudolf Steiner's research into agriculture and education are increasingly recognized, his research into the nature of bees has had limited impact on beekeeping practices and on our general understanding of nature. Wisdom of the Bees examines Steiner's insights and research into the nature of bees and their implications for the future of beekeeping.
Today, more than eighty years after Steiner presented his lectures on bees, we are confronted with a situation he predicted — a serious decline of honeybees around the world. This fact alone justifies Wisdom of the Bees, a practical and timely introduction to biodynamic beekeeping. Erik Berrevoets, an experience beekeeper, revisits those seminal lectures and reexamines Steiner's observations and insights in the context of today's dire situation, while providing practical advice for modern beekeeping practices.
Price: $18.00
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Towards Saving the Honeybee
by Gunther Hauk
A book from a pioneer in the field of beekeeping addresses the current plight of the honeybee and that noble creature’s reaction to the past 100 years of hive mechanization and human manipulation. Hauk, a biodynamic gardener and beekeeper for over 25 years, approaches the bee “as a sick patient who has been trying for years to signal to us the deep crises of its diminishing life forces and its increasing inability to resonate with the environment.” Toward Saving the Honeybee presents the bee colony as a complex and delicate organism, with a life and vital functions far beyond the production of honey. Construction of the hive, colony hierarchy, swarming, as well as foul brood, mites and disease are all discussed in the context of the hive as a whole. Softcover, 80 pages
Price: $18.95
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