Get started or expand with your choice of our all-inclusive, Traditional Growing Apiary Kit! Made for beginners and seasoned beekeepers, these starter kits feature everything you need for your colony to brood, produce honey, and expand. Each hive kit comes fully assembled and ready to go, and features everything your hive needs for the season. Simply stack boxes when your honey bees are naturally ready to expand. Entrance reducer and notched inner cover are not painted. Your choice of feeder sold separately. Bees not included.

• Low VOC paint is used on Painted Kits
• Painted boxes aid in temperature control
• No assembly or tools required
• Built with quality pine
• Unpainted Kits are perfect for your choice of paint or wax coating
• Allows for high honey yields
• Brood frames include black colored foundation
• Super frames include natural colored foundation

Note: It can take up to 2 seasons for your new colony to completely draw out the comb in the supers.

HK150 Painted, 10 Frame Kit includes:

• 2 - 9⅝" (24.45 cm) Assembled Hive Bodies; Painted
• 20 - 9⅛" (23.18 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
• 2 - 6⅝" (16.83 cm) Assembled Supers; Painted
• 20 - 6¼" (15.88 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
• 1 - Painted Assembled Telescoping Cover w/Inner Cover
• 1 - Assembled Bottom Board w/Reducer; Painted w/ Unpainted Underside

HK550 Painted, 8 Frame Kit includes:

• 2 - 9⅝" (24.45 cm) Assembled Hive Bodies; Painted
• 16 - 9⅛" (23.18 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
• 2 - 6⅝" (16.83 cm) Assembled Supers; Painted
• 16 - 6¼" (15.88 cm) Assembled Frames w/Beeswax Coated Plastic Foundation
• 1 - Painted Assembled Telescoping Cover w/Inner Cover
• 1 - Assembled Bottom Board w/Reducer; Painted w/ Unpainted Underside

What size is right for me?

Did you know the only difference in measurements between 10 frame and 8 frame boxes is the width? 8 frame equipment is narrower than 10 frame, and not always compatible with other 8 frame equipment as dimensions vary slightly by manufacturers. 10 frame equipment offers more space for brood and honey production