Well, it's close to 9 months since the last bee posting. It's March now and time to think about bees. I make mead and locally good honey can get expensive when you need 6 to 12 lbs per batch. So I said, well, let's do my own bees! I've decided to build my own top bar hive and take the more natural beekeeping route. There are many obvious reasons why I've decided to go this way over the conventional vertical hives, which I won't get into here. I've ordered my bees from a local apiary and am awaiting the call in April. This was fun to build and extremely inexpensive.

See here for more pictures and narrative https://picasaweb.google.com/1037315...43392922/Bees#

Building the hive


Making a top bar


Nearly completed


Made a roof. Still need to put something protective over it. I think some brown aluminum flashing to keep it very light.