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....
For the past few years I have been inactive in the beekeeping community. Family needs had take precedence. But now I have more time for bees. I am astounded...
Marty it's good to see you on the list. Some of the stuff you have published and things you have spoken to me about has affected my beekeeping principles and...
I'm the woman Moera mentioned who hosted the Hardison Hive Building workshop this past weekend in Washington state (near Portland OR). I'm so glad Moera...
... Building workshop this ... Moera mentioned about ... bunch of folks showed ... saying, "... but these don't ... to see what wild ... parallel in rows 5-6' ...
TBH beekeeper Les Crowder of New Mexico says that bees in a wall cavity move their nest around over time, allowing wax moth to destroy the old brood nest and...
Jacqueline, I agree with all the above. I would add the extended use of brood combs to your list. Masking the bacterial infection with antibiotics can lead...
Hey Mark, Well not exactly. Here in the Midwest we are dealing with the effects of a pollen famine, but that's a specifically different problem. You see the...
I am just saying what we in the Midwest are suffering from. It's a pollen famine. I haven't heard of any significant losses from established small cell...
And the practice of moving open hives during the day, which heavily depopulates the hives. When I want to move a hive, I close the entrance the evening before...
