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I started beekeeping this spring and have yet to actually have any bees. Still, learning about and preparing fo my bees is taking up a lot of my brain energy. I dream almost every night about bees.<\/p>\nI started beekeeping this spring and have yet to actually have any bees. Still, learning about and preparing fo my bees is taking up a lot of my brain energy. I dream almost every night about bees.<\/p>\n
I check my automated digest site: Beekeeping Diges<\/a>t regularly. I noticed an article on Top Bar Hives. The website is one of those wonderful amateur websites, Top Bar Hive Beekeeping<\/a>, without the slick design, but so rich in information that you want to read every word.<\/p>\n Bees in the wild will find a hollow tree or a hole in a cliff face or a sheltered place under a tree limb. They will attach their combs to the ceiling an the comb is drawn downwards. They will not attach comb to slanted sides, usually.<\/p>\n Since they don’t have supers the hives don’t produce as much honey and it is more difficult to keep the bees from swarming.<\/p>\n Top Bar Hives are a fun alternative to commercial style beekeeping. The hives are smaller, much prettier (they look like bird houses) and more cheaper to make and maintain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started beekeeping this spring and have yet to actually have any bees. Still, learning about and preparing fo my bees is taking up a lot of my brain energy. I dream almost every night about bees. I check my automated digest site: Beekeeping Digest regularly. I noticed an article on Top Bar Hives. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/uploaded_images\/topbarhive2-724339.jpg\")
The Top Bar Hive takes advantage of this by making a hive with top bars and slanted sides. The bees naturally build their comb down from the bars and the bars a easily lifted to inspect. It is more economical than a Langstroth hive to build and there are no critical measurements so they can be built from scrap lumber in a variety of sizes.<\/p>\n