It's a big job, but if you're here, you're likely already playing a part.

Click below for our article 

"Shifting the Paradigm... Toward More Natural Beekeeping" 

This article was recently published in the NOFA publication The Natural Farmer.

Click the title for a succinct document that might cause you to rethink some things about honey bees.

What is wrong with Modern Beekeeping?

A brief history of beekeeping in Britain and the USA

by PJ Chandler

If you've successfully overwintered a top bar hive - inquiring minds want to know.  We know there are lots of you out there - but not everybody "gets it"!

Send us a picture of your hive(s) and we will post them here!

Overwintering into 2010 in Appleton, Maine...

Pownal, Maine - overwintered Gold Star Honey Harvest!

New Gold Star Top Bar Hive Owners: (send us new hive pix and we'll post those too!)

From the 2009 Northeast Treatment Free Conference...

These bees are in now!  Here's a link to pix of the install...

From Dan (and Doogie) in Severna Park, MD...

From Jackson, MO --  This one matches his house!

From the Kearsarge Beekeepers Association in New Hampshire...

36 Gold Star Top Bar Hives are on-line here now.  

Sixty + people came out to the workshop, the weather was beautiful, and we had a great time!

 On the way in...

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