The Honey House now had a roof and roof top access. The next step was to install a floor. Up until this point the floor had simply been the earth on which the Honey House was built. It looked fine but we wanted something more stable, water tolerant, and wipeable (honey read more
Building the Cob Honey House: Part 3 – The DIY Spiral Staircase
The honey house now had a green roof with a sitting deck but we had no easy way of getting up on to it. We had thought about a roof access system from early on in the build and considered incorporating floating stairs in to the back wall or building a ladder. It wa read more
Building the Cob Honey House: Part 2 – The Green Roof
When designing the honey house we knew we wanted a green roof to increase garden space and replace the lost green space taken up by its footprint. The honey house also faces West and overlooks the bee yard which we felt would make a nice sitting spot in the evening read more
Building the Cob Honey House – Part 1: The Main Structure
In 2015 we built a purpose designed cob shed for storing our apiary boxes off the hives over the winter. We have taken to calling this the Honey House since it resides in our bee yard and holds apiary wares. It is just under 90 square feet in area, with an interior heig read more