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Deluxe Starter Bundle
This bundle has all the stuff you need, in addition to your hives and bees, to get started in your first season of beekeeping.  All these items are the highest-quality, proven tools to help you be an effective beekeeper from the very start.  We have personally used and proven all these items in our own apiary, and our customers have already been enjoying these individual items themselves.  Now you can benefit from these excellent resources and tools at a lower price in this great bundle.
 

Leather Beekeeping Gloves Leather Beekeeping Gloves
Durable, comfortable, arm-length gloves that provide sting protection and can be worn over any shirt or bee suit
 
Bee BrushBee Brush
This soft-bristled, wooden handled bee brush is great for gently clearing bees from your hive surfaces or your body. 
 
Mini Steel Hive Tool Mini Steel Hive Tool
This versatile, weatherproof, stainless-steel hive tool is 8" long for a comfortable grip and for easy fit in the pocket of your bee suit.  It's great for prying, nail-pulling, removing wax, and scraping hive surfaces.
 
Frame Lifter & Scraper Frame Lifter & Scraper
If you've ever tried to pry a heavy or propolized frame loose with just a hive tool, damaging the frame ears and making the whole job frustrating and difficult, you know why this great hive tool is indispensable.  This specially-designed, stainless-steel tool is perfect for lifting frames and for scraping wax, propolis, and other debris.
 
Stainless Steel Smoker with Guard Stainless Steel Smoker with Burn Guard
This premium-quality stainless steel beehive smoker is the best choice for hours of reliable, consistent smoke in the apiary. This smoker lights easily and stays lit longer. Includes a burn guard and replaceable bellows.
 
5lb Bag Smoker Fuel Go to the top of the page5lb Bag Smoker Fuel
We prefer using processed wood pellets as smoker fuel. The pellets burn clean and cool, are long-lasting, easy to light, deposit little tar on the smoker, and are very cheap. This 5lb bag is enough fuel for up to 10 apiary visits, all through the spring or the fall.
 
Honey-B-Healthy Honey-B-Healthy
Helps promote vigorous hives when used as a feeding stimulant; makes up to 12 gallons of solution at one teaspoon (5ml) per quart of 1-to-1 sugar syrup solution. Essential for starting new packages, encouraging comb development, and building up a colony after winter.
 
The Backyard BeekeeperThe Backyard Beekeeper
Introductory beekeeping tutorial - a great overview for the first season, with unique perspectives and information you won't find elsewhere.  The best kick-start in your first year of successful beekeeping.
 
The Beekeeper's HandbookThe Beekeeper's Handbook
More detailed information on honeybees, hive management, swarm control, and disease detection and treatment -- a must for every hobbyist
 

 


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