Bee Keeping

In addition to the HCC organic farm, I am venturing into the world of bee keeping.  Stay tuned for more information as I get our Warre hives set up.  I am also learning more about honey bees and bear interactions.  This will be an interesting learning experience.

 

What is a Warre Hive??

 

A Warre hive is a vertical top bar hive that uses bars instead of frames, usually with a wooden wedge or guide from which the bees build their own comb.
The Warre (pronounced: WAR-ray) hive is named after its inventor, French monk Abbé Émile Warré, who developed the hive in the early 1900s after experimenting with over 350 hives. Warré wanted to create a hive that was simple to build, easy to manage, the right size for the bees, and still allowed for surplus honey harvest. During this process, he wrote a book called Beekeeping for All that documented his findings and reasons he designed the hive as such.