The Beehive Fences are simple and cheap, made with no cement and using only locally sourced materials. Hives, or dummy hives, are hung every ten meters and linked together in a specific formation so that should an elephant touch one of the hives, or interconnecting wire, the beehives all along the fence line will swing and release the bees.



We have field tested this Beehive Fence design in three rural farming communities in Kenya with over 80% success rate. Any type of beehive can be used although our project focuses on using Kenyan Top Bar Hives and Langstroth Hives as they swing efficiently in the Beehive Fence and provide optimum honey yields for the farmers. Beehive Fences are cheap to construct costing approximately $150 to $500 per 100m depending on what types of beehives are used.

Beehive Fence workshop in Sagalla Community

Loading prepared thatched roofs to take to a beehive fence in Mwakoma Village

Farmers fixing a thatched roof over a beehive fence in Etorro Community

Farmer with beehive fence

Fixing a langstroth hive into a beehive fence with Honey Care Africa staff

Langstroth beehive fence line Tsavo

Lucy with beehive fence in Mwakoma Village, Tsavo

Disturbed beehive fence releasing protective honey bees