Free Bee Hives Co-op. This intermediate building project takes you through each step of building a top bar beehive. Housing your hive in a chicken run can be a great way to stack functions in a backyard system, especially one with kids around.
Smart hives are not the only type of technology attempting to address the loss of pollinators. This plastic bee house comes complete with everything your bees need, making. I have seen hives in slovenia that are over fifty years old and still being.
If your hive does not make any extra honey (which sometimes happens, especially with a new hive) you will receive one quart of honey from another hive in the program.
Hive tool^ with which to pry frames apart, to examine the hive or harvest the honey. Both sides open and a drawer at the bottom can remove what falls through the screened bottom. The feeder can be opened for cleaning when outdoors. As all the other birds who do this job during the warmer season have migrated to warmer lands.
