THE FLEX HIVE
Why the Flex Hive?
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Beekeepers need a way to cut heavy lifting and disturbance without abandoning familiar gear, yet most hives force an either/or choice between frames and top bars.
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The Flex Hive fills that gap with a hybrid horizontal system that keeps frame productivity, adds back-friendly, bee-centric simplicity
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It even lets any beekeeper produce and sell top-bar nucsas a niche, higher-margin offering.
The Flex Hive in a nutshell
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The Flex Hive is a flexible, dual-format hive that marries Langstroth frames and natural top-bar comb in one hive body.
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It keeps what works from Langstroth practice, then adds the comfort, manageability, and cost-effectiveness of a horizontal top-bar hive (HTBH) format.
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It can be 100 percent horizontal, or feature a combination of vertical, stackable, frame-based boxes and a simpler horizontal top-bar box.
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It marries frame-based conventional productivity with the lighter lifting, ergonomic, minimal-disturbance, and budget-friendly nature of top-bar beekeeping.
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It pairs easy liquid honey extraction with effortless comb honey production, and allows dual production of Langstroth and standardized top-bar nucs.
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You can start with frames and introduce top bars, or vice-versa and transition the colony without disruption.
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In a matter of minutes, try both styles side by side and gain the strenfths of both without giving anything up​
4 Configurations
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100% Horizontal
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single Langstroth box (5, 8 or 10 frames) with single HTBH NUC box
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​single Langstroth box (5, 8 or 10 frames) with single or double HTBH
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Vertical to Horizontal combo​​
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Multiple-level Langstroth stack (5, 8 or 10 frames) with single Top-Bar NUC box
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Multiple-level Langstroth stack (5, 8 or 10 frames) with single or double full size Horizontal Top-Bar hive
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Why it's a game changer
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It greatly reduces lifetime cost in equiment and storage of boxes and frames.
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It provides true hybrid flexibility: it allows beekeepers to keep using Langstroth frames while adding top bar combs and colonies to their apiary, so they may populate or exchange resources with each hive style.
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It provides operational versatility by allowing beekeepers to create splits, brood breaks, and queen rearing inside either box.
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It lowers the beekeeper's lifting work by mimizing the manipulation of stacked boxes.
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Free hanging, natural comb on bars bars supports honey bee health and treatment-free practice.
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