This site is about sustainable, chemical-free, small-scale, 'organic' beekeeping, using simple equipment that almost anyone can make at home. If you have not yet heard of 'top bar hives', then this is a place to learn about them.
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beekeeping forum to share low-impact beekeeping information from around the world.
2008 SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE: 'The Barefoot Beekeeper' - A simple, sustainable approach to small-scale beekeeping using top bar hives. Now available as a printed book or downloadable PDF - click here for more about the Barefoot Beekeeper
How To Build a Top Bar Hive - free, downloadable ebook that gives detailed, fully-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for building the top bar hive described in The Barefoot Beekeeper. (This is the PDF version - see top menu for other download options.)
If you wish to send a message to the author of this site, Phil Chandler, please use the 'contact us' link on the top menu.
If you wish to make contact with other organic/ biological/ top bar beekeepers, or post a public message, please use our top bar beekeeping forum(opens in new window)
To register on the forum, you will need the VIP code, which is honeycomb.
"Without husbandry, "soil science" too easily ignores the community of creatures that live in and from, that make and are made by, the soil. Similarly, "animal science" without husbandry forgets, almost as a requirement, the sympathy by which we recognize ourselves as fellow creatures of the animals."" Wendell Berry
