Top-bar Bees

Welcome to Top-bar Bees, a broadly-based information resource for top-bar beekeeping.

Top-bar hives offer the potential for natural, small-scale beekeeping, suitable for the back yard or the community garden. Honey from top-bar hives complements locally produced fruits and vegetables.

Most of the information available to beekeepers, however, focuses on the use of standard commercial hives. This website aims to redress that imbalance by drawing together, organizing and summarizing the widespread information on top-bar hives in a single location.

Refer to the series of menus running down the left-hand side of this page for the topics covered here.