The plans have arrived, after a long process to decide which hive to build I have decided on the Dartington Long Deep hive , persuading a good friend of mine to post the cheque for me to Robin Dartington, rewarded me with a copy of his instructions on how to build his design of hive. I researched a lot of methods on beekeeping before deciding on the idea that the topbar method of brood rearing was kindest to the bees and national hive size frames would make it easy to store and extract the honey.
As I have now worked out how to include them below is a link to Robins site.
All credit to Robin Dartington for many years of research and for giving us this design of hive.
Just to stress again my choice was based on the fact that,
1.Bees should be allowed to produce a colony and cell size of their choosing reducing stress for them.(This opinion is shared by many)
2.We should be allowed to enjoy there generosity in storing more honey than they could eat and have it reasonably easily available.
So there you have it the choice is made Dartington Hive.
I will post some pictures soon of the proposed apiary site without giving away the location, and some of the hive construction progress.
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