Variations on Warré
Delon
Frèrès & Guillaume
Heaf
Dardenne
Gatineau
Groups / Fora
Yahoo e-group
Biobees.com
forum
Abbé Warré's book
1) Primary resources for the vertical top-bar hive of Abbé Warré (?-1951)
English
The book 'Beekeeping For All' by Abbé Warré:
http://www.mygarden.me.uk/beekeeping_for_all.pdf
Chapters of Johannes Thür's book about the Abbé Christ hive
and the principle of retention of nest scent and heat (Nestduftwärmebindung):
http://www.mygarden.me.uk/thur.pdf
Warré beekeeping e-group:
To join, visit http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/warrebeekeeping
or send an email to warrebeekeeping-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
Technical drawings of an authentic Warré hive:
http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bilder/Emile_Warre_Technische_Zeichnungen_engl.pdf
J. L. Christ's hive of 1783 which precedes Warré's and is
almost identical in concept:
http://warre.biobees.com/christ.htm
English Warré beekeeping thread at The Top-Bar Beekeeping
Forum
http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
Ian Rumsey's hive concept, similar to Warré's
http://www.beesource.com/bee-l/biobeefiles/ian/beekeepingpure_simple.htm
Advice for complete beginners to beekeeping:
http://warre.biobees.com/beginner.htm
Supplier of ready made Warré hives and hive parts (also
to UK)
http://www.massivholz-tischler.at/shopv2//themes/kategorie/index.php?kategorieid=12
Import-Handel-Export Anita Thuminger, Vienna.
Bernhard Heuvel's Sustainable Beekeeping based on
Warré hives:
http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/sustainable_beekeeping.pdf
Johan Kok's site 'The Warré Hive', including sales of hives:
http://www.warrehives.co.uk/
French
Jean-François Dardenne's very comprehensive Warré portal:
http://ruche-warre.levillage.org --
includes links to sites of many Warré beekeepers
Warré's book L' apiculture pour tous that describes his method:
http://www.apiculture-warre.fr/
French language site for Warré beekeeping according to Jean-Marie Frèrès and
Jean-Claude Guillaume in L' apiculture écologique de A à Z:
http://www.ruche-ecologique.org/
Marc Gatineau's site:
http://perso.orange.fr/marc.gatineau/index.html
or http://www.apiculturegatineau.fr
French language forum:
http://www.ruchewarre.net
French language Google e-group (Google membership required):
http://groups.google.com/group/la-libera-abelo?hl=fr
Jean-François Dardenne's page on the Roger Delon modification
of the Warré hive (French)
http://ruche-warre.levillage.org/La
Climatstable de Roger Delon.htm
Illustrations of construction of Warré hives:
http://lesruchesdebrunehaut.multiply.com/photos/album/1
Plans (in French) for the construction of the Warré hive (with
frames!)
http://gentiana.chez-alice.fr/ruches/warre_layens/plans-ruches.html
German
Bienenhaltung für alle! -- Warré's Beekeeping
For All in German
http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bienenindex.html
A machine translation.
Technical drawings of a Warré hive in German:
http://selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bilder/Emile_Warre_Technische_Zeichnungen.pdf
Supplier of ready made Warré hives and hive parts
http://www.massivholz-tischler.at/shopv2//themes/kategorie/index.php?kategorieid=12
Import-Handel-Export Anita Thuminger, Vienna.
e-forum has a thread on Warré under Betriebsweisen
> Ökologische Bienenhaltung:
http://www.imkerforum.de
2) Beekeepers engaged with the vertical top-bar hive of Abbé Warré (?-1951) or its analogues
France
La Ruche Warré: http://ruchewarre.canalblog.com
Jérôme Alphonse, a commercial organic Warré beekeeper: http://www.mielleriealphonse.com/index.html
Gilles Denis, commercial Warré beekeeper: http://www.ruche-warre.com
Paul N: http://ruche.populaire.free.fr
René Gaillet's 'Modulor' hive: http://pagesperso.aol.fr/rgaillet/modulor/index.html?f=fs
Germany
Bernhard Heuvel: http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bienenindex.html
Philip Denwood: http://www.mark-sy.de/index.php?bienenhaltung
Rüdiger Marks: http://mark-sy.de
Japan
Traditional 'Warré-like' beekeeping with Apis ceranae: http://warre.biobees.com/japan.htm
Spain
Steve Ham: http://www.flypiedrahita.com/blog/?p=49
Switzerland
Uli Schläpfer: http://biene.arkasana.ch
Jean-Claude Guex: http://www.apiculture-warre.fr
Didier Maillard: http://www.proapis.ch/warre.html
UK
David Heaf (North Wales): http://www.mygarden.me.uk/ModifiedAbbeWarreHive.htm
USA
Nick Hampshire (Oregon): http://www.thebeespace.net
Dennis Murrell: http://www.bwrangler.com/bee/tver.htm