Hi guys,

I've received an inquiry from a mission in Africa about going over 
and doing some beekeeper training. The hives they have are TBH. But 
they sound like they want to step up honey production for revenue. My 
experience with TBH is next to nothing, and I understand about low 
costs making TBH the best entry into beekeeping.

But I've not seen much on how you can extract and bottle honey in a 
TBH operation, and I'm wondering about a recommendation for this 
group to switch over to hive bodies simply so honey can be extracted 
without comb damage, and comb reused.  Here in the states, comb is 
considered "expensive" and in the midwest, our short nectar flow 
means we can't afford the bees the luxury of time to build combs from scratch.

So I'd like some advice here. Is there an efficient way to extract 
honey from TBH that I've missed all this time? Would my 
recommendation for langstroth or local equivalent make sense, for a 
honey production purpose?

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