Let me tell you, there are some people that just refuse to change. Two years ago, we changed our Workshop to Chautauqua just to bee different from all the rest of the workshops nationwide. Chautauqua means gathering for the purpose of exchanging information, ideas, and to trade goods. That is what a workshop is.. basically. [...]

To break even or maybe make a little profit, you should make some financial plans. First you need to know how much money you can spend at the beginning of the venture. If you have enough money on hand that you do not need to borrow from the household, then you are well on your [...]

Last year I was at the Santa Rosa County Fair selling honey and talking about bees and showing my Honeybee Observation Hive. While I was there, I was fortunate enough to be able to walk around the exhibit building. There were many exhibits that could have been classified as hobbies and businesses. Example, there was [...]

Just so you will know, my Thanksgiving was wonderful. I had my youngest son and his family up from Orlando here for a whole week. Didn’t get anything done on my bee equipment, but I had a fun-filled relaxing week of just playing around. I did have several days of stomach virus, but I am [...]

The FFA teacher/adviser, Perry, called me last month to go up to Northview High School in the northern part of the county to show the FFA students how to decap and extract honey. I do this every year (six or seven years now), but usually one or two months earlier. He said that he hoped [...]

Friday and Saturday were my work evenings. I worked the Escarosa honey booth with a young lady about 7 or 8 years of age. She is a very knowledgeable young beekeeper. After watching her find the queen in record time and explaining about the bees to the visitors of the booth, I decided I could [...]

I am having problems with my email and I really didn’t know that I had developed a dependency on it. I am having withdrawals and anxieties because of it. My son in Argentina will be working on it from his end of the world. Also the Pensacola State Fair is going on for the next [...]

I had a beekeeper to call me and wanted me to post some of his beekeeping equipment for sale. He has had some medical issues that have slowed him down from keeping a lot of bees. Then some one rear ended him and made him retire for good. He has some new, barely used, and  [...]

I had a beekeeper call me the other day to ask if he could bring two observation hives over to my house. He said that I was the only one in the area whose bees could still find food. At least I was the only one that could keep an observation hive profitable. He gave [...]

Why not sell honey? You spent money to buy the equipment, supplies, and bees. They make more honey than they can use, so why not? That is the first hurdle that new beekeepers needs to cross. If they can get past that, then they can concentrate of expanding their operation or at least get equipment [...]