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Tools Fondant Feeder Frames Set of 2 for Gold Star Top Bar Hive How do you feed a top bar hive in winter? With a Fondant Feeder! In this feeder, the fondant is suspended from above, just like a honeycomb, making it accessible to your bees in winter - when they cannot break cluster. Fondant recipe included. Spare Spacers Honeybees build their brood comb to a very specific width, and with a hallway between combs of 3/8”- the famous “bee space” dimension. Honeycomb, on the other hand, is made for the storage of honey. Your bees will make the combs in their honey stores much fatter than their brood comb. Use spacers when needed between honey bars! Set of 10 $35.00 $35.00 CONNECTION IS IMPORTANT Are you looking for other folks near you who also keep bees on their own natural wax? Gold Star Honeybees sponsors Facebook groups so people of like mind can locate each other, around the globe. Bee- keeping is hugely global and intensely local - both at the same time. The Global group is here: www.facebook.com/groups/TopBarHiveBeekeepers/ 10 GoldStarHoneybees.com