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Top Bar Barrel Bee Hive Chicken Coops!

Posted in Beekeeping, Chickens, tagged assembly, barrel, bees, chicken coop, chickens, cloth, coop, dogs, hardware, hens, store, top bar hive, top bar hive chicken coop on April 17, 2012 | 10 Comments »

UPDATE December, 2014: It seems this page has been picked up on several other websites. Some people have had questions and concerns about the purpose and use of this setup. This setup was planned for use in a small backyard when we lived in a townhouse. The intention never was to have the chickens confined under […]

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Rain Barrels Part 2

Posted in Water, tagged barrel, camo, collection, conservation, guide, installation, rain, rain barrel, rain barrels, water on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Martha did a fantastic job prepping our rain barrels. Now it is time for me to install them! We decided that our first two rain barrels would reside in our back yard as we had a bit of trouble with water flowing from the existing down spouts from the roof into our lawn and washing […]

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Bee Hive Add-Ons

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged add-ons, barrel, barrel top bar hive, bee hives, bees, divider, entrance, finish, reducer, stain, top bar hive, weather on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

If you’ve been following our series on Beekeeping you know that we now have two fully assembled barrel top bar bee hives. We even had them nicely positioned on some left-over pavers from our patio project. As you can see they look pretty good and could be fully functional at this point. But Martha and […]

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Building Our Top Bar Hives

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged assembly, barrel, bee hive, bees, experience, glue, hardware, hive, instruction, lowes, lumber, screws, top bar, tutorial, wood on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Martha and I would like to share with you our experience building our own Barrel Top Bar Hives (TBH). This is not meant to be a step-by-step tutorial, but rather a general overview of the steps we took and lessons learned during the process,. There are plenty of excellent step-by-step tutorials out on the internet […]

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Settling On A Design

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged barrel, barrel bee hive, blog, coupons, hardware, hive, instructable, tbh, tools, top bar hive on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

You may recall that we decided on Top Bar Hives for our homestead, but beyond the general category of hives we still had to pick an actual design and find or create some plans. Some of the options were all wood top bar hives that look like miniature Noah’s Arks. Others are designed to be […]

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Rain Barrels Part 1

Posted in Water, tagged barrel, conservation, cost, painting, rain, rain barrel, yard on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Early on we decided that rain barrels would be a great addition to our homestead. Our yard is on a slope, and when it rained the water flow over part of the yard would be too much. Grass wouldn’t grow well in that area, and the ground would get really muddy. Part of the water […]

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