10-Frame Double Deep Box Hive KitThis is the setup most beekeepers start with and stick with. Two 10 frame deep boxes form the brood chamber: the queen lays here, the bees raise their young here, and the colony stores the food it needs to get through winter here. When the colony is ready to produce surplus honey, you stack medium supers on top (sold separately). That's the system. It works. We build these from solid cypress not pine, not poplar. Cypress is naturally rot resistant