How profitable would beekeeping be with two hives?

Two standard hives will provide enough excess honey each year to provide for your family, a handful of friends, and a few paying customers. You *might* break even, but probably not until you had been harvesting a number of years. read more

Year two buy more hives with the profit. It turns to this: You're buying 2 hives with 2 supers and 2 brood box - a good size hive for a colony of bees and you'll get a full 100 lbs of honey per box. read more

Many profit-focused beekeepers find that a challenge, but it is worth a serious discussion and your consideration in the upcoming year. We have discussed the concept of Two and a Half Hives over the past year or so, and this is a major focus of my latest book, Bee-sentials: A Field Guide. read more