Building a Layens Beehive
Wow, I thought I would have never made a post about building beehives until the last year. I've always liked honey and bees but having my own colony of bees, let alone building my own beehives, wasn't something that I imagined to be doing anytime soon. But you never know. You starting researching a subject and then before you know it you are knee-deep into it. This is how it happened with my bees and beehives. Before going into the details of this post, let me share a short video of my bees to whet your appetite (I should have paid the nightingale singing in the background, which makes this short video much more loveable) : There are many different types of beehives and beekeeping methods in the world. I am not expert to pitch one method over the other. But after having read the book called "Beekeeping With a Smile" , I was hooked on deep horizontal hives. These hives are not a new invention, apparently a well-known French apiarist called Georges de Layens ...
