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Bee farming can be profitable. A healthy hive can produce 60–200 pounds of honey per season, selling at up to $10/pound. Additional revenue sources include beeswax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, and beekeeping services like pollination. Average profit margins range from 15% to 40%. Beekeeping is a diverse income source.
- Making Money Your First Year Beekeeping
- Selling Bees
- Beekeeping Classes
- Pollination Services
- Bee Swag
- Get Paid to Keep Bees
- Bee Removals
- Pollen
- Venom Therapy
- How Many Hives Do You Need to Make A Profit?
Selling Your Honey
If you have some honey to spare, the easiest way to make some cash is to sell your honey to friends, family and co-workers. A simple email and social media post is often times enough. If your work is ok with it, have some for sale in the break room or see if your church will let you sell some in their cafeteria or office.
Beekeepers can sell a nuc, a package of bees or queen bees. Most people with a small bee farm sell nuc's. They're much easier to put together. All you need is a nuc box, which you can purchase online. I like to use the waxed nuc boxes. They're about $10 a piece and I don't have to coordinate with people to drop it back off at the farm. When selling...
Beekeeping classesare a great way to generate income in the Spring and Summer. If you don't have the experience to offer an in-depth class, you could also offer bee/farm tours for the general public. The bee farm I used to work for offered beekeeping toursto the general public. These are great because it's not just for beekeepers, but anyone who wa...
Many commercial beekeeping operations rely heavily on making an income from pollination services. Whether or not you will be able to find a farm interested in this service depends on where you live. Here in Kona, there's a lot of queen breeders and most farmers get pollination for free, but in most of the U.S., farmers will pay quite a bit for poll...
Once you are already selling some of your honey and wax products, a great way to increase your final sale is to make what I call "bee swag". This may be a sticker, t-shirt or other product not made by the bees but is related to bees or honey. At our farm, we sell t-shirts, onesies and magnets with our logo on it. These items are good sellers, espec...
At our farm, we get paid by a hotel to keep bees for them. They keep the honey, we keep the bees. It's a great, steady income. The client gets to advertise that they're helping the bees and they can share a jar of honey with their logo on it with their guests. In addition to hotels, resorts, restaurants, B Corps, botanical gardens and retreat cente...
I, personally, hate doing cut outs (when you remove a wild hive from where ever they are located). It almost always ends up taking all day, I find it difficult to do without someone helping me, you often have to cause damage to someone's house to get to the bees and sometimes requires a tall ladder. It's just too much. That being said, some people ...
I have never sold pollen, for quite a few reasons, but it is another product you can harvest from the hive. Just remember that there may be different criteria for selling this product in your county. For example, you may need a certified kitchen. Also, pollen has a shelf life, so make sure you do your research and harvest it properly before you sel...
This is something I know very little about. However, I have sold bees to someone who used them in their venom therapy. Again, make sure you know what you're doing and what your county laws are for this service as well as liability issues.
I found that 20 was a good number for me in order to quit my job. I was able to easily manage 20 hives on my own. I would take 1 day to inspect them all and they weren't all in one spot or even close to my home. One person should be able to manage up to 50 hives on their own, in my opinion, especially if they do not have another job other than beek...
- Honey. Honey is usually the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear beekeeping for the first time. Production costs of local honey are very low, just enough to cover labor and packaging.
- Pollen. Pollen is the main source of protein for the bees and also acts as a dietary supplement for us. It has a higher market value than honey because pollen duty isn’t designated to all foragers.
- Propolis. Bees really know how to clean houses, and their renovation skills are exceptional. They seal all the cracks and disinfect the hive with propolis.
- Wax. This one goes hand in hand with honey but only makes financial sense in bulk. If you use an extractor to harvest your honey, then the honeycomb gets recycled, and you wind up with very minute amounts of wax.
- Start-Up Costs. Making beekeeping profitable generally requires thinking along those lines right from the onset. Practically speaking, that means being prepared to invest what is necessary at start-up to make sure your business is viable for the long term.
- Bee Hive Management. Many new beekeepers do not understand that hive management is essential to long-term survival. Bees, like most other living organisms, are susceptible to a variety of diseases, parasites, and potentially threatening environmental influences.
- Regulations and Legal Implications. There are always regulations and legal implications attached to running a business. Where beekeeping is concerned, you have several issues to think about.
- Time Commitment. Succeeding in any business venture requires a commitment of time. In other words, you will be spending more than just money. You are going to have to invest time in setting up your colonies.
Beekeepers can make money in the following ways: Honey. Harvesting and selling honey is one of the primary income streams in beekeeping. Raw unpasteurized honey can be sold for a higher price than processed store-bought honey. Beehive products. Beeswax, propolis, and pollen can be harvested and sold to various industries that use these items in ...
Unlike insurance and cars, good quality honey is one of the easiest commodities to sell, especially for a beekeeper. The benefits of raw honey are known all over the world. Your only job is to convince your customers that you have added nothing to your honey crop. In fact, the presence of hives in your yard and your coveted title, ‘beekeeper ...
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Experienced beekeepers can also offer local bee removal services. You can profit and increase the number of hives you have with no cost for the bees. Be removal costs an average of $450 (£325) but can range from $150 to $1500 (£108 to £1082) or more if the bees are inside a structure and difficult to access. 6.
