top bar hive

Here’s a short video of our bees at 6 weeks. They’ve built up to top bar number 9. We’ve  moved the follower board back to give them 6 or 7 more top bars to build comb on, and we opened the third entrance.

Since our new honey bees don’t have any food we have to supply it for them initially. Instead of buying a plastic feeder we found a nice video explaining how we could make our own bee feeder from Philip Chandler, here. The roof of the hive is removed showing the top lid for the bee feeder

We have talked about getting involved with beekeeping ever since we got our place. It helps pollinate our garden as well as some new fruit trees. We found an apiary about an hour away so we ordered a box of bees. The pickup date on the bees was March 25th, but we had a cold