Beauty in Beekeeping
Standardized Top Bar and Horizontal Beehives for the Future
When form meets function, art meets science, and experience meets creativity, great hives are the result.
About Skookum Beehives
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Our Mission
At Skookum Beehives, we are dedicated to our love of honeybees and to helping those who keep them do so in a modern, comfortable, and healthy way through bee-friendly beekeeping.
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I started my beekeeping journey as a little kid in Vermont helping my dad with his two Langstroth hives. I loved both the bonding time with my dad and the hobby of beekeeping. Unrelated (at the time), I also learned to build canoes and kayaks with my dad over the years. After taking nine beekeeping classes and reading half a dozen deep-di
I started my beekeeping journey as a little kid in Vermont helping my dad with his two Langstroth hives. I loved both the bonding time with my dad and the hobby of beekeeping. Unrelated (at the time), I also learned to build canoes and kayaks with my dad over the years. After taking nine beekeeping classes and reading half a dozen deep-dive scientific and research books about bees and beekeeping, I became deeply interested in Top Bar beekeeping. Pairing my skills with boatbuilding and my accumulated knowledge and experience with beekeeping, I designed, built, refined, and standardized my own model of Top Bar beehive and Horizontal beehive that combine beauty, versatility, science, ecology, and creativity.
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Our Products
Our Products
Skookum builds custom, state-of-the art, science-based Top Bar beehives and Horizontal hives. These hives are a happy medium between bee happiness and beekeeper comfort. Click below to learn more about our hives!