Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 4
Now that you know why you should keep bees and what beekeeping can do for you, it's
time to move on to learning about how you can enter this fascinating and potentially
lucrative sphere of activity. Getting started in beekeeping is not difficult and, to start off,
you will need the following items:
beehive(s)
beekeeping tools
suitable clothing
bees
beehive sites and, finally,
somewhere to keep all your equipment.
My advice is to start with two (or more) beehives. The reason for this is that, during the
beekeeping year, much can go wrong with a colony of bees and, as you will learn, if one
colony begins to fail due, for example, to a bad queen or if it becomes entirely queenless,
you can use bees, larvae and eggs from the second colony to help out. If you have only
one colony you will have no immediate source of help and the colony will die out. So
my advice is to obtain two beehives initially.
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