Plastic Barrel Top Bar Hive (honeybee)
The honeybee project on La Gonave is still on-going. I often get inquiries about the status. We are still working on the plans to bring honeybees to La Gonave. The actual dates of having honeybees on La Gonave is Jan of 2016, so in less than 1 year you will see honeybees on La Gonave. As I mentioned in many blogs, having enough food on the island of La Gonave is very important. It will be a project that will be constantly on-going. One of the more affordable ways to build hives in Haiti would be to use less wood and use plastic food grade barrels. Honeybees normally build hives in trees and naturally build comb in a particular way. The traditional top bar hive isn't exactly the natural way, but still allows the bees to build their own comb in a similar fashion. Top bar hives are now some of the most expensive hives to purchase. At Let's Build Gonave, Haiti, we want to make things extremely affordable for future beekeepers on t...