Welcome to our natural beekeeping hub for micro eco-farming (from backyard farming to small-scale farming on acreage). You'll find beekeeping information on 3 alternative honebybee hives, how to keep bees naturally healthy, photos, video, beehive construction plans (some free), and more. (Created exclusively for www.MicroEcoFarming.com.)

Top Bar Hives

The top bar hive is also sometimes more precisely called the "horizontal top bar hive." This hive can be perfect for natural beekeeping, both for the garden or beekeeping business. It is extremely simple to build, bees seem to love it, harvesting honey is uncomplicated and it doesn't involve the heavy lifting of hive sections as what happens with conventional hives.
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The Warre Hive

Some people feel the Warre hive is almost as simple, or even more so, than the top bar hive, and is also a favored type for natural beekeeping. READ MORE ABOUT THE WARRE HIVE FOR NATURAL BEEKEEPING (Including photo, leads to both free and updated resources for Warre beehive construction, more resources on natural beekeeping information using the Warre hive)

The Dodecahedron Beehive

More and more people seeking beekeeping information want to know about the dodecahedron hive. It's one of the most intriguing honeybee hives I've ever encountered, and definitely a gift to natural beekeeping. It was invented by Ron Breland of West Nyack, New York, who provided the photo for this article.
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The Honeybee Watering Station

Honeybees are healthier if you provide water nearby. Here's how.

Coming soon:

- Growing a Bee Herbarium: More than just a nectar source, allowing bees to herbally heal themselves with their own instincts

- Incense vs. smoke for calming bees

- Mason bee addition or alternative

- DIY Honeybee Hive & Bee Colony for Free (or almost free): Article on creating a honeybee hive for free and attracting a free, local bee colony