Does anyone have any suggestions about whether it would be practical to tranfer frames/comb from a lang nuc into a 16" wide Kenyan TBH? Could the side and...
I have a thought, wedge two straps of wood far enough apart in the the kenya hive so you can put the full frames in side ways, maybe 3 or 4 of them. If you...
I put a call in to the Ecology Center to see about space again, but I didn't actually ask Les (I'm sure he'll be into it). I know he's coming again in Febuary....
I talked to Les Crowder last night to see about setting up another presentation (last year he did one at Ecology Center in Berkeley), and at the moment it...
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Hello beeks, Myself and K. Ruby are having a get-together for top bar hive beekeepers in Berkeley/East Bay area on Feb 7th. I think the meetup will be at my ...
I lost 2 of my 3 hives, sigh. One was SO productive this last year and had lots of honey stores, so I really don't know what went wrong. The other hive was a...
Many things can go wrong - not enough food,mites, other health related problems etc. You have to find out what happened. What are the symptoms,what did you see...
Girl mark wrote: "I have a hive in the backyard (not that we'll be able to see all that much of it) and I'll bring an empty screen bottom TBH and some of those...
Hi Mark, I wasn't able to get the slide show to play. Is there another image somewhere of this type of cut out frame? Thanks, (boy) Erin ... summer ... ...
you can cut and paste the beesource discussion link into your browser (yahoo chops it up so I won't give it again) and it shows the complete discussion and a...
Hello, I've been on this list for a while, lurking and learning. I now have an opportunity to finally get a top bar hive made this year. A woman from my...
Pop up a google window and enter: "top bar hive" OR "topbar hive" OR topbarhive the OR's must be uppercase. This will locate a multitude of sites describing...
If I had to do it all over again and didn't have a local community of TBH'ers who swap hive parts and brood combs at times, I"d suggest doing a combination...
I'll second that. Gives quite a bit more versatility. This is in fact how I am designing my new TBH's. I hope to be trying out both a KTBH that can be supered...
Here are the two that I have been consulting: http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/main.htm (scroll down to the section that says "Modified Tanzanian Top Bar Hive") ...
Thank you all for the links. I'd found some of the sites in earlier searches, but hadn't found the right page. My husband is the wood worker, so I needed to...
Thank you so much. I've been looking all over for Marty Hardison's TBH plans. Now I have 3 sets of good detailed plans to choose from. I'm getting so excited...
We're having an East Bay (with some experienced beekeeping San Franciscans coming ) Top Bar Hive and organic beekeepers' meeting on Wednesday, from 7-9. The...
This past Saturday, a few folks from my permaculture group and a local biodynamic group got together to make TBHs. We used the Hardison plans. There were 8 of...
The bee supply house in my area orders in March and April, I need to call them this week and get that going. I just don't want to put the bees in before March....
