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Abbé Warré's book
Beekeeping for All:

1. Printed edition

2. free e-book (PDF)

1) Primary resources for the vertical top-bar hive of Abbé Warré (1867-1951)

English

The book 'Beekeeping For All' by Abbé Warré:
http://www.mygarden.me.uk/beekeeping_for_all.pdf

Chapters of Johannes Thür's book about the Abbé Christ hive and the principle of retention of nest scent and heat (Nestduftwärmebindung):
http://www.mygarden.me.uk/thur.pdf (original German at http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/bien/bienenzucht_full.pdf )

Warré beekeeping e-group:
To join, visit http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/warrebeekeeping or send an email to warrebeekeeping-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk

Technical drawings of an authentic Warré hive:
http://warre.biobees.com/plans.htm

Nick Hampshire's site with Warré hive construction help for complete beginners:
http://thebeespace.net/

J. L. Christ's hive of 1783 which precedes Warré's and is almost identical in concept:
http://warre.biobees.com/christ.htm

English Warré beekeeping thread at The Top-Bar Beekeeping Forum
http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12

Ian Rumsey's hive concept, similar to Warré's
http://www.beesource.com/bee-l/biobeefiles/ian/beekeepingpure_simple.htm

Advice for complete beginners to beekeeping:
http://warre.biobees.com/beginner.htm

Bernhard Heuvel's Sustainable Beekeeping based on Warré hives:
http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/sustainable_beekeeping.pdf

David Heaf's 4-part article serialised in The Beekeeper's Quarterly 2008, supplemented with ethical introduction.
http://www.heaf.freeuk.com/towards_sustainable_beekeeping.pdf

Translation of pages 60-71 of the 5th edition of Warré's book regarding the frame versions of his hive:
http://warre.biobees.com/warre_5ed_60-71.pdf

A home-made honey press suitable for extracting Warré comb:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/press.htm (You may wish to put stainless steel in contact with the comb.)

E-group started March 2009 for natural beekeeping in cold climates
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/naturalbeekeepingincanada/

Suppliers of Warré hives and/or kits

Europe:
Import-Handel-Export Alfred and Anita Thuminger, Vienna.
http://massivholz-tischler.at/xt/index.php?cat=c13_Warr--hive.html&XTCsid=30cc522285af6aaeca5827e507ed1ef6
      (with or without a window in each box)

Ickowicz, France
http://www.ickowicz-apiculture.com/catalogue.php
      (search 'CF895', a 3-box Warré; or 'CF887' a Warré-type top feeder)

Jérôme Alphonse, France
http://www.mielleriealphonse.com
      (improved Gatineau version; also supplies bees already installed)

UK:
Elvin Roberts (Dover)
Email: majorhives (at) hotmail.co.uk (substitute @ for (at)). Phone: 01304 389323 / 07742 113169

Matt O'Callaghan (New Forest) http://www.warrebeehive.co.uk

Johan Kok: http://www.warrehives.co.uk/

USA:
Nick Hampshire (Oregon): http://warrebeehive.com/
Mat Reed (Oregon): http://www.beethinking.com
Keith Bloom (Illinois): http://bloominbz.com
Chris Harvey (Michigan): http://www.thewarrestore.com (part of Teakwood Organics)
Dale Hill (Washington State): http://heartofhills.wordpress.com/ 503-648-0722 (also makes hive lifts)

French

Jean-François Dardenne's very comprehensive Warré portal:
http://ruche-warre.levillage.org -- includes links to sites of many Warré beekeepers

Warré's book L' apiculture pour tous (12th ed.) that describes his vertical top-bar Peoples Hive:
http://www.apiculture-warre.fr/livre_warre.html

Scan/OCR of 5th edition of L'Apiculture Pour Tous fully bookmarked:
http://warre.biobees.com/warre_5th_edition.pdf (5 Mb)

Images of pages of L'Apiculture Pour Tous, 5th and 12th editions (scroll to bottom of page):
http://ruche.populaire.free.fr/

French language site for Warré beekeeping according to Jean-Marie Frèrès and Jean-Claude Guillaume in L' apiculture écologique de A à Z:
http://groups.google.fr/group/ruche-ecologique/

Gilles Denis -- supplier of Warré hives, parts, bees & Warré beekeeping manual; runs courses on the Warré hive
http://www.ruche-warre.com

Marc Gatineau's site:
http://perso.orange.fr/marc.gatineau/index.html or http://www.apiculturegatineau.fr

French language forum:
http://www.ruchewarre.net

French language Google e-group (Google membership required):
http://groups.google.com/group/la-libera-abelo?hl=fr

Jean-François Dardenne's page on the Roger Delon modification of the Warré hive (French)
http://ruche-warre.levillage.org/La Climatstable de Roger Delon.htm

Illustrations of construction of Warré hives:
http://lesruchesdebrunehaut.multiply.com/photos/album/1

Plans (in French) for the construction of the Warré hive (with frames!)
http://gentiana.chez-alice.fr/ruches/warre_layens/plans-ruches.html

Supplier of 3-box Warré hives to the Marc Gatineau design (with frames!)
http://www.ickowicz-apiculture.com

Round and square/round versions of the Warré hive
http://www.laruchecarronde.net/

List of Warré hive vendors in France (in French; correct in April 2009)
http://warre.biobees.com/warre_hive_vendors_france.pdf

Claude Bralet's extensive site on bee-friendly beeheeping including the Warré hive
http://www.ruche-ecolo.com/ruches/warre.html

German

Bienenhaltung für alle! -- Warré's Beekeeping For All in German
http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bienenindex.html
A machine translation.

Technical drawings of a Warré hive in German:
http://selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bilder/Emile_Warre_Technische_Zeichnungen.pdf

Supplier of ready made Warré hives and hive parts
http://www.massivholz-tischler.at/shopv2//themes/kategorie/index.php?kategorieid=12
Import-Handel-Export Anita Thuminger, Vienna.

German offshoot of 'Friends of the Bees'; Warré and horizontal top-bar hives; nature-near beekeeping 
http://www.immenfreunde.de/. Site run by Bernhard Heuvel.

e-forum has a thread on Warré under Betriebsweisen > Ökologische Bienenhaltung:
http://www.imkerforum.de

Russian

The first Warré site in Russian, in Estonia by Sergey (also known as burbot):
http://warre.ucoz.ru/ 

Romanian

Forum http://stuparitul.3xforum.ro/; thread APICULTURA - FORUM DE APICULTURA "STUPARITUL" / ECHIPAMENTE SI UTILAJE APICOLE / stupul warre.

2) Beekeepers engaged with the vertical top-bar hive of Abbé Warré (?-1951) or its analogues

France

Guillaume Fontaine's Francophone Warré web portal: http://www.apiculture-warre.fr/ .

La Ruche Warré: http://ruchewarre.canalblog.com

Jérôme Alphonse, a commercial organic Warré beekeeper: http://www.mielleriealphonse.com/index.html

Gilles Denis, commercial Warré beekeeper: http://www.ruche-warre.com

Paul N: http://ruche.populaire.free.fr

René Gaillet's 'Modulor' hive: http://pagesperso.aol.fr/rgaillet/modulor/index.html?f=fs

Claude Bralet's 'La Ruche Ecologique' site: http://ruche-ecolo.com (new September 2009)

Germany

Bernhard Heuvel: http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/bienenindex.html

Philip Denwood: http://www.mark-sy.de/index.php?bienenhaltung

Japan

Traditional 'Warré-like' beekeeping with Apis ceranae: http://warre.biobees.com/japan.htm

Slovakia