http://blog.justalittlebluehouse.com/?p=48 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:51:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://blog.justalittlebluehouse.com/?p=48&cpage=1#comment-37 kvincent Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:30:15 +0000 http://blog.justalittlebluehouse.com/?p=48#comment-37 Yes, you can absolutely harvest honey from a TBH. Think of a top bar layout like a horizontal Langstroth (stacked boxes) hive. Typically, they will consolidate the brood nest to certain bars, and store honey on on the outsides of the brood nest. There is little need for a queen excluder. Yes, you can absolutely harvest honey from a TBH. Think of a top bar layout like a horizontal Langstroth (stacked boxes) hive. Typically, they will consolidate the brood nest to certain bars, and store honey on on the outsides of the brood nest. There is little need for a queen excluder.

]]> http://blog.justalittlebluehouse.com/?p=48&cpage=1#comment-33 Gary Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:36:44 +0000 http://blog.justalittlebluehouse.com/?p=48#comment-33 Is there a way you can harvest honey from a top bar hive? It seems like you couldn't stack them (at least, all the pictures I've seen they are trapezoidal), so you wouldn't be able to separate out the brood comb from the honey. Is there a way you can harvest honey from a top bar hive? It seems like you couldn’t stack them (at least, all the pictures I’ve seen they are trapezoidal), so you wouldn’t be able to separate out the brood comb from the honey.

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