Keeping honey bees is a fascinating and profitable pastime that can be enjoyed in several ways. You may want to keep bees for the delicious fresh honey they produce, for the benefits of their valuable services as pollinators for your crops, or perhaps just for the fun of learning about one of Nature’s most interesting insects.
You can keep honey bees successfully almost anywhere in the United States with relatively little trouble and a minimum of expense. This bulletin supplies you with the basic information you should have to get started. As a beginning beekeeper, you will need only—
- A few dollars’ investment in materials.
- A suitable location for bee-hives.
- Elementary knowledge of the habits of honey bees.
Download the bulletin to learn more.
Garden Variety Bees
A few years ago I went to a mead tasting over Christmas vacation in San Diego, which is 6 hours from Phoenix. Fortuitously, I was using my travel time to work on my New Year’s Resolutions. And guess what one of my resolutions was…? Yep, to learn how to make mead. So I did lots of research in that same time to find out how to make it and where I could get equipment cheap, because that’s kind of how I am…Cheap!
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