10 Frame, Double Deep Beekeeping Starter Kit
This beehive starter kit is the basic hive for successful beekeeping, with all of the necessary pieces needed for the colony of honey bees to live in. Our woodenware is made from long-lasting cypress wood, and our foundation is a high-quality double-waxed foundation.
This Langstroth hive is a complete kit with the woodenware needed to start your first beehive. The beekeeping supplies in this kit include:
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You can opt to purchase your beekeeper starter kit unassembled, assembled, or painted. When buying unassembled, the only parts that need to be assembled are the frames and boxes. All other pieces of the hive kit are assembled for you. If you are a beginner and starting bee keeping for the first time, it may be a better choice to buy assembled equipment as assembling frames is easy, but it can take some time to do it properly. We do have jigs to make this easier.
If you opt for fully assembled, the beekeeping equipment is assembled extremely well. We use weatherproof and multiple, very large staples for our frames and boxes.
We have multiple sizes and types of , and it can be a little confusing. Because of this, we wrote a few posts to help.
When looking for beekeeping kits for sale, it can be hard to distinguish the quality online. We have been selling this beekeeping starter kit , which is very popular and of excellent quality. Our cypress wood equipment is made with a very clear, 7/8-inch thick smooth board, which is thicker and more durable than the industry standard but is still compatible with the standard beehive.
Each of our kits is designed to be the space where the queen can lay eggs, and the bees can store fresh honey to eat over the winter. This kit does not include the or needed for the bees to store excess honey for the beekeeper to harvest from. It is possible to need 1 more medium box and frames during the first year, especially if you start the colony with a nucleus hive or live in a sub-tropical climate.
We recommend getting one more , just in case. If not used during year one, it will be needed during year two. If using a , it would be placed above the boxes in this kit and under the additional boxes added to the hive.
Be sure to check out our on getting started in beekeeping.
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If you would like to customize the kit, like opting for , or a instead of a screened one, we recommend building your kit and adding separate pieces to the cart. All the pieces of the beekeeping starter kits can be purchased separately at the same price as they are in the kit. This way, you can get the bee equipment you want. You can use the list of products above as a guide.
Some starter kits include lots of other beekeeping supplies that are not necessary. Since we started having beekeeping kits for sale, we chose to keep the equipment simple and not oversell. There are other pieces of equipment you will need like a , or , , a or package of bees , a and a . We have all of these products for sale, and they can be purchased separately through our website or in our store.
There are other tools available like a , , , and more that are optional. It's not necessary to purchase everything you need, but there are essentials that every beekeeper uses.
Purchase separately to customize your hives.
Be sure to read our blog on .
