[Lapg] passive beehive plans

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This guy builds low maint. passive beehives. Or there is a link to plans to
build your own.
C






 The *Warré Hive*, meant for hands-off, minimalist and sustainable
beekeeping practices, is used extensively by backyard beekeepers in the
United States and Europe and in a number of large commercial apiaries. Abbé
Émile Warré experimented with some 350 hives of various designs with the
aim of producing a hive that was simple, economical, bee-friendly and which
assured a surplus of honey for the beekeeper. The result was a hive whose
construction and operation is described in his book (and free e-book)
“Beekeeping For All”. Rather than “supering,” or adding empty boxes to the
top of the hive, Warré hives are “nadired,” meaning that empty boxes are
added to the bottom. This mimics the environment of a wild colony, as bees
prefer building downwards from the top of their cavity. A Warré hive is a
vertical top bar hive having eight foundationless top bars in each box. As
these hives were designed most specifically for over-wintering of bees in
the cold French climate, they provide a comfortable home for honeybees to
flourish in the Pacific Northwest.



You may find a free e-book (PDF) of Abbé Warré’s book “Beekeeping for All”
at http://warre.biobees.com/bfa.htm. This book should be read by all Warré
beekeepers. You may download it and have it bound at a local printer, or
you may purchase the bound edition.



An excellent resource on the Warré hive itself is at
www.warre.biobees.comThere are assembly diagrams and very useful
information at that website (
notice especially the links: Warré
plans<http://warre.biobees.com/plans.htm>and Warré
methods <http://warre.biobees.com/methods.htm>).



For more on the scientific basis of bee-friendly beekeeping see
www.bee-friendly.co.uk
.



I encourage you to also read "The Complete Idiots Guide to Beekeeping"  by
Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer.
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Beekeeping/dp/1615640118



To learn more about sustainable beekeeping with Warré beehives,  you will
want to read "The Bee-Friendly Beekeeper: A Sustainable Approach" by David
Heaf  < www.bee-friendly.co.uk > and I recommend "Nine Lectures on Bees" by
Rudolf Steiner, on the wisdom contained in the beehive. You may read it
online here <
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/English/SGP1975/NinBee_index.html>



Bill Wood

(541) 687-8211

woodbillr at q.com

www.beeologique.com
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