Just take a look at the articles that have come out against it. The frustration among beekeepers was paramount and it coalesced into a stubborn hatred of anything Flow Hive. We were flooded with constant questions and many of those questions were based on misconceptions about what beekeeping involves. So, when the Flow Hive was released and brought with it a boom of new and naive beekeeping hopefuls it’s no wonder it overwhelmed so many of the experienced beekeepers. It takes incredible patience to accept and mentor new beekeepers. For experienced beekeepers, this process is sometimes hard to watch. They make mistakes, they lose hives and then they either learn from it or they quit beekeeping altogether. The new Flow Hive beekeepers are similar to all new beekeepers.
The majority of the complaints I have heard about the Flow Hive are not about the invention, but about new beekeepers who might use it. For good or bad, the Flow Hive inspired a wave of new beekeepers and with that comes a lot of ignorance and mistakes.
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During the past year, I have organized two local beekeeping meetings with presentations by the inventors, participated in their “Meet the Beekeeper” film series and was hired to write several educational articles for the Flow Hive blog. I am not being paid to write this article. I put them to use in the spring, but had not harvested honey until just last week. In the fall of 2015, the company sent me a complete Flow Hive kit and an additional Flow Super at no cost. I teach hundreds of new beekeepers each year, many of which have Flow Hives. I decided to keep an open mind, mostly for the sake of my current and future students. When the news of the Flow Hive invention first broke, I was a skeptic, like many others. I have been keeping between 20 and 80 hives for the past seven years. Beekeepers are infamous for our diverse and contrasting opinions, but the controversy over the Flow Hive is so extreme that it cannot even be mentioned without sparking a civil war among beekeepers. So, is the Flow Hive what its opponents claim it to be: an evil invention designed to enslave bees for honey? Read on to get my take.īefore I go any further, I want to be up front about my experiences with beekeeping and the Flow Hive because I have noticed many of the articles written on this subject have been written by people who are either new to beekeeping or people who have never used the Flow Hive. The drama surrounding the Flow Hive is unending and riddled with misinformation.
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