Complete National Hive with Live Bees – Self-Sufficiency Starter Package - 1½ Brood Version: Deep + Half Brood Chamber Deposit £200 – Full Price £800 (Collection May 2026)

A Step Toward Self-Sufficiency

Keeping bees is one of the most rewarding and practical ways to increase self-sufficiency. A single healthy colony can pollinate your fruit, vegetables, and wild plants while providing raw honey, propolis, and wax — natural products valued for their nutrition, healing properties, and everyday use around the home.

This complete British National Hive comes fully assembled and stocked with a thriving live colony — ideal for beginners ready to start producing their own honey straight away.

🐝 What Makes This Package Special

• Established colony from our Surrey apiary: mated queen, brood at all stages, worker bees, drones, and stores — ready to work and grow.
• 1½ Brood setup (Deep + Half Brood Box) for easier management and natural expansion.
• Handmade Western Red Cedar hive, built in our own workshop for strength, durability, and bee comfort.
• Beginner-friendly fittings including dummy boards, frame spacers, feeding eke, mouseguard, and organic varroa treatment.
• Ongoing support from an experienced beekeeper trained over 50 years and managing hives in a fully off-grid woodland setting.

📦 What’s Included

• Deep Brood Box with full colony (10 frames + dummy board)
• Half-Depth Brood Chamber with 10 frames (foundation wax) + dummy
• Varroa-control open mesh floor
• Wooden Queen Excluder (correct bee space)
• One Honey Super with 10 frames (foundation wax)
• Crown Board
• Feeding Eke (also doubles as a shallow honey super)
• Metal-covered roof
• Organic varroa treatment
• Mouseguard
• Full printed instructions

🌳 Why This Hive Supports Self-Reliant Living

Bees contribute directly to food security by pollinating crops and wild plants, improving yields of fruit and vegetables.
Raw honey provides a natural sweetener rich in enzymes and beneficial compounds, while propolis offers natural antibacterial properties, and beeswax is ideal for balms, candles, and food wraps — all part of a practical, independent lifestyle.

🚚 Collection

Collection only from Hanging Wood, RH9 8DF.
Hives are sealed and safe for transport — only the floor and brood box contain bees.