Our premium Flow Hive – crafted from western red cedar and packed with thoughtful innovations.
Our revolutionary Flow Hive design provides a solution for harvesting honey that’s easier for the beekeeper and gentler on the bees. The Flow Hive 2+ takes it another step forward.
Made from premium western red cedar, the Flow Hive 2+ is packed with innovative hive features to help you take great care of your bees.
Includes:
• Innovative base design
• Flow Super
• Flow harvesting shelf brackets
• Flow’s unique gabled roof design
• Durable brass hardware
• Entrance reducer
• Optional hive stand with ant guards
Our premium hive is perfect for beginners or experienced beekeepers – available in both 6 and 7 frame sizes to suit your beekeeping needs.
“This has all come about because of our love for the bees and an acknowledgement of how important they are, not only to the food we eat, but to all life on Earth.”
- Stuart Anderson“If we look after the bees, they’ll look after us. And the honey really is an amazing bonus.”
- Cedar AndersonIncluded with the purchase of any Flow Hive is our Bee Supported package – phone support, Live Q&A streams weekly, prioritised email and live chat.
In addition, our online course contains all the beekeeping knowledge you need to make you a confident, knowledgeable beekeeper.
It is important to understand some basic safety guidelines to ensure that your beekeeping experience is a safe and positive one.
Check out this Flow sponsored safety pamphlet covering common beekeeping safety risks and first aid responses.
We recommend you paint or stain your Flow Hive.
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6 Frame hive with stand: Dispatches in 1-2 working daysWith Flow’s patented technology, you can harvest honey from individual frames directly into your jar – no blending or processing required.
Enjoy pure, unadulterated honey that captures the unique seasonal variations in colour and flavour, from your very own backyard.
This handy optional feature allows you to control the height and level of your hive perfectly, ensuring the correct slope for honey harvesting. Keep your hive dry and off the ground, preventing ground-dwelling pests from gaining easy access.
Featuring a Flow Ant Guard™ set to give your hive even more protection. Made from powder-coated aluminium, it’s durable and easy to assemble.
The Flow Hive 2+ base is considerately designed for pest management, ventilation control and functionality. Including spirit levels for gaining the optimal hive set-up, a multifunctional tray for hive observations and applying pest treatments, and ventilation controls to suit every climate.
Highly requested by the Flow community, the Flow Entrance Reducer is handy for protecting against predators and robbing, reducing drafts in cold climates and can be used to seal the hive entrance for short periods when relocating your hive.
An elegant solution to keeping ants out of your hive. Your Flow Hive 2+ comes with an adjustable Flow Ant Guard™ set, made in Australia from 100% recycled polypropylene. Guards provide a space for creating a liquid ant barrier on the legs of your hive stand.
Created from highly durable, sustainably sourced, A-grade western red cedar, the Flow Hive 2+ is laser-cut and built with precision by us in Australia.
Beekeeping is a fascinating and rewarding hobby, where the discoveries are endless. Plus the honey really is an amazing bonus!
If you’re just getting started, we’re here to help – our friendly support team is on hand via email, phone, or live chat to get fast answers to your buzzing questions.
Or if you’d rather go straight to the top, join Cedar, our co-inventor, every week for a special live stream on Facebook and Youtube, where you’ll have the opportunity to ask him your questions live!
We’ll support you every step of the way with a swarm of educational resources to ensure your beekeeping journey will be an enjoyable one.
Ready to take the first step? Learn beekeeping terminology – from queen excluders, to drone bees and all the parts of a beehive – by downloading our simple PDF guide to beekeeping to start your journey today.
Our premium Flow Hive 2+ includes extra features to make taking care of your bees even easier, and is manufactured using western red cedar (Thuja Plicata). Sustainably sourced in North America, cedar is a beautiful timber with a remarkably fine and stable grain structure.
Cedar is often used as a hive timber in the USA, UK and other regions, because of its durability and insulative properties.
The wood includes beautiful, rich colour variation ranging from yellowish-white colour to a pale brown through to a richer dark brown. As this product is made from naturally grown resources – each hive will be slightly different in character. You can maintain a natural timber finish by oiling or staining to accentuate its natural colour variations.
Our Flow Hive 2+ base, Hive Stand, Entrance Reducer and Ant Guards are available as upgrade features for existing hives (subject to availability).
If you have an existing hive and need some advice on which upgrade components are compatible, please contact our team – we’ll be happy to help.
Bees rarely find their way into empty beehive boxes, even though they are designed to be a perfect home for them.
There are a number of ways of starting a colony, from buying a package of bees, to receiving a hive split or catching a swarm.
We also have a range of videos and blogs to help you understand the different ways in which you can source bees for your new hive.
Yes! Flow Hives are perfect for setting-up just about anywhere.
You will need enough space to access the back of the hive for easy harvesting and your bees will require a clear space at the front of the hive for their flight path.
You'll also need to check-in with local governing bodies to find out if there are any regulations that you need to be aware of.
Here are some of our top tips on where to set up your beehive.
Yes! The Flow Hive is successfully in use in all climates wherever beekeeping is possible, from the hot Australian summers to the cold Alaskan winters.
Beekeeping is a fascinating hobby which when approached with knowledge, skill and dedication can be incredibly rewarding.
It is important to understand some basic safety guidelines to ensure that your beekeeping experience is a safe and positive one.
Beekeeping suits and other personal protective equipment can offer excellent prevention against bee stings but are not 100 percent effective. It’s important new beekeepers exercise caution when tending to their hives and are comfortable with the fact that sooner or later, all beekeepers get stung.
Check out this Flow sponsored safety pamphlet covering common beekeeping safety risks and first aid responses.