Warre Bee Hive
During the first lockdown last year I decided that I needed a simple project to keep me creative, a project I'd wanted to do for a long time! - A beehive! And more to the point a Warre Hive. Last year for fathers day the children bough me the book "The Idle Bee Keeper" By Bill Anderson. It was on the recommendation of a friend who keeps bees. I was quite taken with the book and loved the idea of these simple to build hives. Now my experience with bees is, other than being stung a few times, pretty much zero. and although I've read plenty of books on the subject (like pretty much every subject to do with woodwork or homesteading) I still feel that I need some hands on experience. So my friend said that if I made the hive I could keep it at his, we would try to catch some bees and keep them in there and maybe I could come and learn a bit as well. Unfortunately by the time I'd finished making it, it was too late in the season. So we had to wait until this year! Bu...