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Thanks all for the helpful replies. Have tried emailing HillTop but no joy so far. Looked at USA suppliers, but as you say cost makes them prohibitive I think. Will try Measom and see what their costs are like. The Yemen honey looks fab. And not keen on Masie's box, but could use if other...

Hi all Am thinking abut honey packaging, just in case I have sufficient honey in due course! Have ordered jars and lids, but fancy trying to get some cut comb also and don't like the traditional "softer" type plastic packaging that seems readily available. Anyone know where I can get hold of...

Hi Illia This might help you re plans for a national hive: http://dave-cushman.net/bee/nat.html and from the same site: http://dave-cushman.net/bee/natdrawings.html Good luck.

Doesn't it look beautiful. If it is in any way re-assuring, I have a similar comb pattern in my brood box frames with starter strips, where the bees have started at two separate points and joined them later.

sorry - not quite got the hang of this and thought my first reply hadn't posted!

Thanks all - really helpful advice. Need to give it some consideration, although first instinct is not to entirely ditch the idea of starting foundationless and accept I'm on an even steeper learning curve with more disappointment ahead! A compromise would be to try to interleave...

Thanks for all of the helpful responses. Think I'll try and go for a mixture of foundation frames interleaved with frames fitted with starter strips in the brood box - and perhaps the supers also. It should provide the bees some guidelines, enables me to try my hand in a small way at...

Nope never handled it, just seen the videos, hence my questions to those with far more experience than I.

thanks both for the replies. I would like to go foundationless to allow bees to just build naturally and avoid the use where possible of foundation and any possible contamination it may introduce to the hive. Honey production alone isn't therefore my primary goal and I would like to try and...

Hi there, have completed my local bee keeping association course and am now waiting for a swarm. I'm really interested in starting off foundationless if I can but there seems to be lots of conflicting advice from don't do it if you're new to beekeeping, it's too hard, to - it's easier to start...