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While top bar hives are by no means a new technology, they are a significant departure from the conventional square-box hive which has dominated the US beekeeping landscape since the Civil War. So there could be said to be two camps, if you will. One camp carries a belief in a long-standing tradition, and the other a desire to do something different because what we’ve been doing for the last 150 years doesn’t seem to be sustainable. This has led to a swirling morass of information marked by strong feelings and high passion. Emotions confuse the matter for the novice, who has no basis for comparison and often finds it difficult to understand why people are so adamant about their own personal choices in beekeeping. In this chapter I will do my best to explain top bar hives clearly so that you can compare and choose the beekeeping method that makes the most sense for you. Top bar hives have been made of all sorts of materials and containers—from baskets and flowerpots to...

How Did We Get Hera From There?

Humankind’s interaction with bees spans many thousands of years. But the relationship has not always been as one-sided as it is today. Ancient civilizations were honey hunters — collecting honey from beehives discovered in the wild. Often this included physically destroying the hive in order to gather the honey. At some point, humans began attempting to domesticate the honeybee. While the idea of actually taming a honeybee is a bit cheeky, people did manage to convince bees to live in containers or cavities of our choosing, in locations that we selected. These containers became known as beehives, and they included such things as hollow logs, pottery vessels, wooden boxes and woven straw baskets. The ancient Egyptians were probably the first culture to maintain bees in artificial hives. They floated barges carrying clay hives up and down the Nile River where flowers were plentiful. The bees would forage along the river during the day, and then the barges were drifted down the river...

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