Flow Hive: the hive that allows you to collect honey on tap

With this little house, anyone can make honey, even on their own terrace. The problem is cost.

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The Flow Hive system, after raising over $13 million through a crowdfunding platform, has become a highly popular hive among honey producers. It allows honey to be collected on tap, without disturbing the bees and without waste.

FLOW HIVE

Designed by Cedar and Stuart Anderson, a father and son team from Byron Bay, Australia, the Flow Hive is a hive that can be placed even in small spaces, like your balcony, to produce and harvest your own honey.

ADVANTAGES

Maintaining the naturalness of honey production, what changes with Flow Hive It is the harvesting method that takes place without the beekeeper coming into contact with the bees. Thanks to the new system, you only have to turn a tap. A kind of vending machine to get honey on tap and an invention This would also protect the bees. The system works very simply: by turning a lever, a device opens the back of the hive, and the honey flows, by gravity, into a tube where it is collected. The honey harvest takes about an hour, and once it's finished, the lever is turned again and the bees can continue their work undisturbed. This way, the honey is collected quickly, on tap, and without causing any discomfort to the bees.

DISADVANTAGES

The Flow Hive hive, although very efficient, has some disadvantages that should be highlighted:
  • Before ripening, honey is more liquid than mature honey. This can lead to leakage.
  • The honeycomb material is plastic, not beeswax.
  • The Flow Hive is an expensive hive: it costs over $600, compared to a simple hive that costs no more than $100.

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