Building a new home for your bees is an exciting part of your beekeeping journey. It’s best to take your time and ensure that you get your assembly right. Check out our assembly videos here.

Paint it your way 🎨

It’s important to treat the timber on your hive to give it the best weather protection possible for your climate, especially the roof – it’s the first line of defence against the weather. Read more

Choose your location 🏡

The good news is, you can keep a beehive almost anywhere! Especially a Flow Hive, as there is no need for additional processing equipment or for lugging heavy frames full of honey for harvesting. From rooftops to balconies to backyards, it’s now possible to harvest honey directly from your hive.Here are some tips to make sure your location of choice is good for you and for your bees.

Register your hive 🐝

An important part of getting your new hive up and running is ensuring that it’s registered. This step is a crucial part of becoming a beekeeper and helps protect our biosecurity.

Knowing best practices ❓

Part of beekeeping is ensuring you’re informed about things that may impact not only your bees but the wider beekeeping community, such as biosecurity. The good news is there are a number of simple steps you can take to support the health of your bees when you’re getting started. From staying abreast of any industry news, to registering your hive, to knowing what to look for in terms of pests and diseases, understanding these practices now will set you up for success moving forward!

Beekeeping in Fall | Flow

Start beekeeping this autumn

Discover the fascinating world of bees in three steps, and prepare for the next beekeeping season.

1 Grab the starter bundle

2 Learn as much as you can

3 Source your bees

Already a beekeeper? Here's our apiary maintenance checklist.

Step 1: Choose your starter bundle

Experience the award-winning invention that lets you harvest honey straight from the hive.

What you’ll receive

Flow Hive 2
Organic cotton bee suit, goatskin gloves, J-hive tool, Flow Veil
Flow Smoker
FREE online beekeeping lessons^

Shipping info

Taste the difference

Honey tells the story of its local landscape like nothing else – from its colour to its flavour, it allows us to experience our environment in a brand-new way.

What’s more, our revolutionary Flow technology lets you harvest in small batches directly to your jar, without the blending of conventional harvesting. The result? Each jar has its own unique taste profile, depending on which flowers the bees have foraged from. You’ll be amazed at the rich variety of colours, flavours and aromas a single hive can produce!

Your garden will thrive

Introduce a beehive to your garden and experience the pollination power of up to 5 million flowers a day!

Bees and other pollinators are a vital ingredient to ensure your plants bear fruit. They get busy, and (before too long) your abundant vege garden is the talk of the street.

What’s more, honey bees produce lots of delicious honey (up to 21 kg per Flow Hive, in fact!)

Step 2: Learn as much as you can

One of the most important parts of becoming a beekeeper is learning as much as you can and we have you covered!

We have a swarm of resources available to help you every step of the way, including a weekly Q&A with the inventor, email, chat, and phone access to our support team.

To fast-track your learning easily and enjoyably, we created an online beginner beekeeping course – TheBeekeeper.org. Learn in your own time with high-quality videos explaining what you need to know in order to feel confident looking after your bees.

Step 3: Source a bee colony to call your own

There are several different ways to source a colony for your hive.

A popular option is to purchase a ‘nuc’ – a small colony which includes a laying queen, workers, drones and 4 or 5 frames of brood and honey.

Depending on your location, there may be late season swarms or splits available – contact your local bee supplier or beekeeping club to check.

If they're all out, be first on the list for next season.
You may even find a local beekeeper who will share a late season hive split with you.

Your questions answered

Jamie Oliver recently answered our most common questions by newbees. He purchased his first Flow Hive in 2020, and has now expanded to 5 Flow Hives. He shared his wisdom to his social media followers.

Starting with a Flow Hive

Flow Hives are a fantastic hive for beginners. They’re easy to use and make harvesting honey so much easier for the beekeeper and so much gentler on the bees.

Starting as a beginner

It’s easy to get started but important to learn as much as you can. Check out online resources or connect with a local mentor to kick start your learning.

Can anyone keep bees?

Yes! People keep bees all over the world, even in urban areas. Anywhere that bees can naturally survive, you can become a beekeeper.

How much work?

Keeping bees is an absolute joy, so maybe work is the wrong word 😉 The amount of time required is minimal, but will vary a little depending on the season.

Start your pollinator garden

When selecting your garden blooms, make sure to include some local native plants in a variety of different colours.

Bees, like humans, enjoy diversity. Include flowers of different sizes and shapes and plant in clumps to make foraging a breeze.

Find plants that bloom at different times of the year. Support a range of different pollinators throughout the different seasons. Trees and shrubs produce much higher quantities of pollen and nectar, however, smaller plants produce forage more regularly – it’s great to have a selection of both.

Learn more

What happens next?

: Building a new home for your bees is an exciting part of your beekeeping journey. It’s best to take your time and ensure that you get your assembly right. Check out our assembly videos here.
: It’s important to treat the timber on your hive to give it the best weather protection possible for your climate, especially the roof – it’s the first line of defence against the weather. Read more
: The good news is, you can keep a beehive almost anywhere! Especially a Flow Hive, as there is no need for additional processing equipment or for lugging heavy frames full of honey for harvesting. From rooftops to balconies to backyards, it’s now possible to harvest honey directly from your hive.
Here are some tips to make sure your location of choice is good for you and for your bees.
: An important part of getting your new hive up and running is ensuring that it’s registered. This step is a crucial part of becoming a beekeeper and helps protect our biosecurity.
: Part of beekeeping is ensuring you’re informed about things that may impact not only your bees but the wider beekeeping community, such as biosecurity. The good news is there are a number of simple steps you can take to support the health of your bees when you’re getting started.
From staying abreast of any industry news, to registering your hive, to knowing what to look for in terms of pests and diseases, understanding these practices now will set you up for success moving forward!