The world’s most innovative beehive makes beekeeping efficient, reduces waste & gets honey on tap!





Bees are essential to keeping multiple ecosystems in balance as they pollinate trees and crate food for other animals – they are essential for our survival! Now coming to the little ‘sweet’ things we all love about bees is that they also produce honey. Beekeeping is an ancient practice and beehives have hardly gotten design upgrades but Flow Hive is changing the game. These beehives are good for the bees, innovative, reduce waste, and are so efficient that you actually get honey on tap…literally!

The Flow Pollinator House not only benefits bee populations in your yard, but the proceeds also support advocacy groups across the country. This bee shelter and hive is made by a father-son duo who took a different approach to honey harvesting that is less stressful to the bees and their keeper. It features a mechanism that simply releases the honey straight into jars without the hassles typically associated with the harvest.





The Flow Pollinator House not only benefits bee populations in your yard, but the proceeds also support advocacy groups across the country. This bee shelter and hive is made by a father-son duo who took a different approach to honey harvesting that is less stressful to the bees and their keeper. It features a mechanism that simply releases the honey straight into jars without the hassles typically associated with the harvest.

The process of making the Flow Hive results in cutoff waste, so the company decided it was time to make use of it. Upcycling the sustainably sourced bamboo and salvaged Araucaria timber from the production of the Flow Hive models resulted in the development of the Flow Pollinator House. The house offers protection for hard-working native solitary nesting bees. It encourages them to work nearby, pollinating gardens, flowers and other plants in the vicinity. The Flow Pollinator House comes flat-packed as a DIY kit, complete with everything you’ll need to build it. You can create a custom format by choosing how to arrange the wood tubes and design the exterior to your liking with stain or paint.

Because the house kits originate from leftover wood materials, there are a limited number of Flow Pollinator Houses for the season. They can make a great gift for the gardener, nature lover or advocate in your life. Plus, the product line is a benefit program with the company committing to donate 100% of all proceeds to U.S.-based pollinator advocacy, education, and protection groups.

“The honey bee is one of 19,000 bee species in the world that are essential to pollination and life on this planet as we know it,” said Cedar Anderson, CEO and founder of Flow Hive. “We created this upcycled pollinator home to provide a safe place for solitary bees to raise their young, while offering our customers a fun, family-friendly project to build together. By creating this habitat in your backyard, together we are building the stepping stones across the urban landscape which may just help save some of these important species from the brink of extinction.” Flow Hive is a truly bee-utiful upgrade for the bees!

Designer: Honey Flow

Honey I shrunk the beehive!

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You know, you’re much better off breeding actual animals than virtual ones on your smartphone. The Homehive is your own apiary kit that allows you to not just breed bees with ease (rhymes!) but also tap the honeycomb for your own freshly made honey!

Bees are probably the most important keys to human survival on this planet but they’re a dying breed. Scientists predict that it won’t take long for bees to be extinct and we could be battling an apocalypse just years after. Homehive lets you be a part of the solution. Creating a safe haven for an entire bee-clan, the home hive not only allows an eco-system to thrive in your household, but you’re also constantly rewarded with delicious fresh honey!

Designer: Jonathan Cohen

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I think most of us will agree that one of the best foods in the world is a big, hot, salty order of McDonald’s french fries. Those fries are about the only thing that McDonald’s serves that taste good. I am a fry purist. No ketchup for me, only salt and crispy, artery clogging, fried potato goodness.

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Occasionally I will dip them in some bar-b-q sauce, but that’s as jiggy as I get with my fries. In South Korea, McDonald’s is doing something really weird. They are offering honey butter french fries. Apparently, South Koreans are insane for honey butter. In fact, some sort of honey butter potat chip was introduced last year with that flavor and people actually stood in long lines to buy them.

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Flow Hive Lets You Steal Honey from Bees with Minimum Fuss

All I know about bees I learned from three sources. I watch lots of Elementary and Sherlock, which seem to talk about bees quite a bit. I also watched Bee Movie and learned a lot from Seinfeld, namely that honey theft is a serious crime. My cousin also had been hives growing up and I learned that even when you are wearing a beekeeper suit, you can still get stung. That’s all I really need to know.

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If you like keeping bees a new hive system has turned up on Indiegogo that makes it easy to harvest the honey with minimum effort and stress on you or the bees. The system is called the Flow Hive. When harvest time comes around all you need to do is walk up and turn the crank, and the honey flows out into collection jars. A special system of prefabricated honeycomb structures allows the honey to flow easily with minimal disturbance to the bees. In the past, harvesting involved donning a suit, using smoke, and spinning the honeycomb to get the honey out, so the Flow Hive represents a major improvement in the process.

The Flow Hive crowdfunding project was seeking just $70,000 and has raised nearly $2 million so far, with 42 days left to go. A system will cost you $350 if you want to get in on the beekeeping action.

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