Gold Star Honeybees provides the absolute best in top bar hive kits. Our tools and accessories simplify your beekeeping tasks. Christy Hemenway, company founder and author of "The Thinking Beekeeper" teaches the Gold Star Weekend Intensive class, two full days of giving students the confidence to keep bees in this natural method - and helping them to "shift the paradigm" toward clean natural beekeeping methods. Tested in the apiary since 2007, Gold Star's hive kits measure up to the level of excellence you've come to recognize as the "Gold Star Standard." After all, if it's not a Gold Star... what IS it?