Sustainable Beekeeping

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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

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• Introduction to The Barefoot Beekeeper by P J Chandler (free PDF)


• 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.)


• Towards Sustainable Beekeeping - articles that appeared in the 2007 Beekeeper's Annual and in Beekeeper's Quarterly

communications

• 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 the new top bar beekeeping forum (opens in new window)
• To register on the forum, you will need the VIP code, which is honeycomb.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

some other top bar beekeeping sites

• Abbé Warré vertical top bar hives
• Marty Hardison
• Bees For Development
• Daniel Garber
• Hirschbach Apiary
• Gary Kohler
• Dennis Murrell
• John Caldeira
• Leonard G Barton
• Michael Bush
• James Satterfield
• Norman Weston
• Backyard Hive
• natural beekeeping in TBHs
• small-cell beekeeping on La Palma
• Yahoo Top Bar Beekeeping Group
• Cornell beekeeping library

• Smallholders Online
• Wholesome Food Association
• Green England directory
• The Biodynamic Land Fund
• Biodynamic Agriculture Association
• Agriculture Directory
• Katalog Stron Przyrodniczych