Most beekeeping supply companies offer starter kits for beginning beekeepers. The idea is to offer everything needed, except bees, in one kit. Usually some of the kits’ components are the least expensive and lesser quality. Most suppliers will not allow you to make substitutions and still get a ‘kit’. Look at the catalogs, shop the web and compare. Buy what you believe will fit your needs best. If you have questions, please ask.

Because this can all be confusing to new beekeepers, we buy bulk equipment and then divide it into starter kits that are just right for our beginners  … basically we do the leg work for you!

Booger Hill Bee is selling a ‘starter kit’ to help new beekeepers and our students, so that they have an easy and positive early experience. We have chosen components that are reasonably priced and are of good quality

Dan’s Deluxe Beginners Kit $250*

(bees must be purchased separately)

Hive Kits

I am offering a hive kit this spring (2011).  I am offering it because previous students have told me that it would have made their experience better.

Dan’s Standard Hive $130*

(bees must be purchased separately)