The BackYard hive is hand crafted with care to provide you with the best possible

home for your bees.  It includes precision-milled top bars, an important feature

that helps encourage the bees to construct perfectly parallel combs.  Another

special feature is the glass observation window that is built in to the side of

every BackYard hive.  This window allows you to watch the progress of your

hive without having to open the top every time you want to take a look. 

To learn more about the features of the BackYard hive, click on the

'more details' link below.

Price: $295.00
Size: 36” L x  14 1/2” W x 9” H

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The Golden Mean BackYard Hive

 The Golden Mean Hive has a larger volume than the Original BackYardHive, it is deeper yet shorter in length. After accidentally creating some hives in Golden Proportion several years ago and watching year after year how much honey these hives produced, we figured we should take a deeper look as to why this may be occurring. We then studied the width of the honeycomb the bees drew out and we measured the width of the bee. All these measurements were coming out in Golden Proportion. The top bars are based on the size of the bees and our observation of how far apart the bees build their combs. Then PHI was used to build the dimensions of the hive.

We love this hive as it produces more honey! And with the larger volume colder climtes can benefit as it can hold more bees and honey to overwinter.

We used the Pentagon to derive angles because the pentagon is the geometric representation of the golden mean ratio PHI. Length of the hive is PHI times width : i.e. the length of the hive is in PHI ratio to the width.

The same great craftsmanship is used: milled hardwood top bars, observation window, falseback and entrance reducer.
The only difference between the Golden Mean Hive and the Original BackYardHive is the volume.
The wood is from lodge pole pine from beetle kill wood, we're taking a bad scenario and turning it into
something positive! 

Price: $350.00
Size: 28 ½” L x 18” W x 10” H

  
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Getting Started in Beekeeping with The Top Bar Hive

BackYardHive.com's new video "Getting Started In Beekeeping with the Topbar Hive"  gives you experience-tested techniques and step-by-step instructions to successfully start and manage your very own beehive. This DVD video includes 6 complete chapters that take you from set-up to harvesting and processing your honey.

So, instead of wading through hundreds of pages on the Internet, reading a book, or taking a local beekeeping class, you can  pop a DVD into your player and get answers to your questions rapidly and easily. Instead of continuing to wonder if beekeeping is right for you, you can take the first step into the fascinating world of back yard beekeeping. (Run Time 15 minutes)

Price: $14.99

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 Pre-Built Top Bars for Your Self-Built Hive

If you choose to build your own hive based on the free BackYardHive.com plans , you may want to consider buying these pre-built top bars.  We mill these bars out of hardwood to exact measurements so that your bees will have a straight guide for drawing out straight comb.

The bars are available individually and in packages of 24.

Bar Dimensions: 1 3/8" width x 3/4" height x 14 1/4" length
(the "spine" of the bar is inset by 1" from the ends)

All packages of top bars come with 1oz. of Pure Beeswax to coat the "spine"
of the top bar.

Prices:    Single Bar: $3.00 
 
              Package of 24: $62.95

              Package of 24: Plus falseback and entrance reducer: $77.95

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Single Bars: Within US | International

Pkg. 24: Within US | International  

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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
good! We figured that the top bar hive deserved a tool with a little

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.

Pry top bars apart with the forged end.
 
Scrap comb and brace comb off the sides of the hive.

 Price: $32.00

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Beeswax - 100% Pure

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Delicious Raw Honey 

This multi-floral raw honey is harvested from Colorado Top Bar hives. It comes in a hand blown glass jar with a honey dipper. Handcrafted by a local artist this jar can be reused and replace that little plastic squeeze bear on your kitchen table.

This will be some of the best honey you have ever tasted!

10 oz Honey & Hand blown jar & stir stick

Price: $29.95   
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 The Bug Shirt

The "ELITE" Bug Shirt                                   The "ORIGINAL" Bug Shirt

The fabric is lightweight and cool but very densely woven so that mosquitoes can't bite through it. It is available in natural coloured 100% cotton.

• The face mesh provides excellent visibility. All our bug shirts are made with no-see-um face mesh, to protect against even the tiniest no-see-ums and sand fleas.
• The zippered hood can be easily thrown back, and fits over a baseball cap or hard hat.
• Wrist closures seal the sleeves against biting insect intrusion
• A drawstring at the waist with bow cord lock provides a positive seal at the bottom edge.
• The entire shirt folds into its own zippered pocket, and travels easily on a belt clip


The Bug Shirt is not specifically designed to guard against stinging insects such
as bees while beekeeping but we prefer to use it when we work with the hive.
We feel comfortable around the bees and are OK with an occasional sting from a
bee that may get through the jacket.

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Original Bug Shirt: $57.95      Add to Cart:  Within US  |  International

The "Elite" Bug Shirt: $65.95    Add to Cart:  Within US  |  International

 Ancient Bee Art T-Shirts

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: $13.95   
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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: $4.99 2’x 2’ square (fits a 5 gallon bucket)

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