Top Bar Hive - Top Bar Beekeeping

Useful Plants for your Bee Garden

Raspberry



Easy to grow and full of antioxidants. Bees love it in the spring. They gather pollen and nectar and are all over the plant keeping it pollinated to give you the best possible harvest in the late summer and early autumn. The leaves can also be used to make tea.

Cherry Tree



Great early spring nectar and pollen source for bees. Just at the right time for the bees needs. You will not harvest honey from Cherry with couple of trees but I urge all beekeepers to provide at least one tree around the hives because bees love it and you will love it too along with your and neighbour's kids :)

Purple Coneflower



This flower is the Queen in my garden. I see myself planting it more and more. Bees love it and the whole family is making tea and tincture. It is believed to be one of the best immune system building herbs. So it is useful for you and for bees. After two years you can even use roots to make tincture but I just leave it there for my bees and only take some flowering head here and there.

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TBH resources

Spring is here and bees are already flying around and gathering pollen like crazy. Not much nectar sources yet but Wild Cherry is slowly starting to flower and bees are happy. Soon they will start building new comb and gather nectar.

For all of you who are starting with Top Bar Hives I decided to list some resources where you can find more information that will get you started.

Now it is time to build hives, prepare all equipment and 2010 beekeeping season can begin :)

Resources :

• M. Bush Top Bar Hives
One of the sites that got me started with TBH beekeeping. Great resource and easy to follow plans to build Top Bar Hive. I decided to standardize on Bush TBH design.
• Biobees forum
Forum with huge amount of information on TBH beekeeping.
• TBH forum
New kid on the block. It looks like a great forum for all TBH beekeepers, experienced and new beekeepers.
• Beesource TBH forum
Another forum with huge amount of TBH beekeeping

I posted some links, mostly to the beekeeping communities because I think it is best to register and participate in discussions. You will learn a lot. Don't hesitate to comment in comments section about your TBH beekeeping experience. Do send comments if you find some TBH resource.

Have a nice season

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Biobees Website and Beekeeping Forum

One of the first resources I found while searching for beekeeping websites and tutorials was Biobees website.

While I was browsing though the website I found couple of free top bar hive resources including pdf describing how to build top bar hive. It struck me that this ebook was free since a lot of people charge couple of dollars if they put so much work into ebook. I was reading this ebook and found out that the people on the website also sell 74 pages ebook on sustainable beekeeping in top bar hives. I bought it imediatelly and read it. You can peak at Biobees blog to get the feeling what ebook is all about. I certainly recommend this one!

After couple of days browsing I saw they also have Top Bar Beekeeping forum and since then I am a regular contributing member there. If you are interested in top bar hives it is well worth joining and participating in the debate. There seems to be couple of members there who really know a lot about top bar hive beekeeping and beekeeping in general. They helped me great deal already.

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