Beekeeping is a great hobby, whether you keep bees for pollination, honey, profit, medicinal uses or all of the above.
But getting started with bees can be expensive if you use conventional hives.
A basic setup with bees can cost more than $200, and building conventional hives and frames is time-consuming.
But there’s a simpler, less-expensive and more natural option: top-bar hives. The top-bar method of beekeeping allows you to make simpler, inexpensive hives. Build them now and you can start keeping bees next spring.
In the top-bar system, you build simple box hives with slats (bars) of wood laid across the top, to which the bees attach their wax comb…
