>>934899It really depends. If you're trying to produce honey commercially, you need to invest a lot of money in things that will increase production at the expense of hive health and consequently things to keep them from dying at your hand. If you're producing honey for personal use, you can afford to leave them adequate amounts, taking only what you need, and they'll do fine on their own.
I grew up with honey being a family hobby and have been wanting to get into it myself as an adult; I drew up pic related as an easy way to make a top-bar hive, if you want to save yourself from paying for a langstroth. With top-bars, you have to remove whole sections of comb, and never take more than 25% of it, but that'll be enough for personal use.
