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The Lockdown Pallet Hive by Jonathan Powell
£10.95
The Lockdown Pallet Hive
£10.95
When many people think of honey bees, they often think of lines of white boxes on the ground, and honey jars. However the natural habitat of a bee is not a box, and neither is it on the ground, and honey is really the bees food, needed to sustain the colony.
There are still wild bee colonies, but they lack suitable natural nesting cavities in trees. This book describes how with some basic wood working skills you can make a nest that is perfect for free living honey bees.
The author Jonathan Powell is a trustee of the Natural Bee Keeping Trust and a trained Zeidler tree beekeeper and life long friend of the honey bee.
VIEW Contents
- The World has Changed
- The Pallet
- Tools & Deconstruction
- Beginning Construction
- Making The Core
- The Outer Shell
- But Does it Work?
- Why Make Pallet Hives?
VIEW Book Review
REVIEW BY JOHN PHIPPS THE BEEKEEPERS QUARTERLY No.146, DECEMBER 2021
Jonathan Powell, well known for his construction of hollowed-out tree hives, shows that with only two days work a tree hive which might cost £400 from a manufacturer can be made for nothing if a couple of suitable pallets can be found. By suitable he means pallets that have not been preserved in harmful chemicals such as Methyl Bromide, but heat treated instead - methods of treatment are usually visible on the pallet with the appropriate code.
Placing the hive in a tree will help wild bees that have difficulty in finding suitable nesting sites and Jonathan explains the right way of going about this task.
Using pallets as a source of wood for hive making is not easy - I have had great difficulty in breaking them up without splitting some of the wood, but using the correct tools and patience certainly helps.
Lock Down Pallet Hive? - a good name given that Jonathan found difficulty in obtaining suitable wood during the Covid restrictions.
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