Hive setup for brand new location and new owner

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Welcome, Nick! Don’t worry, this is a nice place to bee. There, I said it

Our esteemed member @Doug1 runs double Flow supers with success. He’s in a vastly different climate however, so your logistics could be pretty different. Here are previous posts that mention it:

Filtering Honey

Hi Doug, as I’m not a honey connoisseur, what makes it “top grade”? Is it colour, taste, texture?

Extra super on top

Our Nth American cousins use multiple honey supers, including flow frames. They seem to have a very fast flow that they need the multiple supers to allow it to be collected, stored and evaporated to honey to maximise production. @Doug1 added some pictures and rationale in this thread. Filtering Honey It is also quite common to have two honey supers, or more, for commercial operations, and hobbyists, here in Western Australia on heavy flows. So yes you can and in some situations you probably …