Posts Tagged ‘top bar hive’

Installing Our Bees

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Yes, my engineering side shows in this article’s title, what can I say? The day our bees arrived we took off work early to drive down to Virginia Bee Supply to pick up our two packages and equipment. Picking out our packages was a very unceremonious process, we gave our names and then were told […]

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Top Bar Barrel Bee Hive Chicken Coops!

Posted in Beekeeping, Chickens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Bee Hive Add-Ons

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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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Settling On A Design

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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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