Beginning Beekeeping And Honey Bees

Beekeeping and honey bees is an enjoyable and satisfying hobby. While helping the farmers with their crops and the gardens in the neighborhood you will also enjoy the honey that you gathered yourself.

Do you remember the saying "busy as a bee"? Well, that expression is really true when it comes to honey bees. Bees work very hard gathering the nectar they use for making honey. They work so hard that after about thirty five days they wear out their wings and because they are no longer a benefit to the colony they die. The cones are used for storage of the honey, which is their food at times when the flowers are not blooming. If the season is exceptionally good they will collect much more nectar and in turn produce a lot more honey than they can use. The beekeeper can then collect good quantities of honey to use or sell.

There are a couple types of honey that a beekeeper can gather and sell. The honey that is gotten from the cone is called liquid honey. It is extracted from the cone by using a centrifuge extractor. Another way is to sell the whole cone or parts. This honey is still in the wax cones that the bees put together. This honey is not as easy to use in cooking or sweetening different thing but is liked by those who want it's natural flavor.

Honey comes in different colors and flavors, but this is not known by most. Flowers have a variety of scents and the nectar that is gathered by the bees will have different smells and tastes. The type of soil that the flowers grow in helps determine how the honey tastes and looks. In an alfalfa field the honey will be white to clear because of the drier and alkali soil but if the nectar comes from a buckwheat field it will be a darker color. The quality of the cone has a bearing on the taste of honey and also the colors can be golden, red and even hues of green.

Honey is still a food so it is wise to follow state and federal laws on beekeeping and honey bees when it comes to handling, processing and labeling the honey and what ever other products there is. Check out the guidelines for your particular area because you are in business and each government might have their own specific regulations.

A person that buys honey in a jar or a container is probably not interested in buying honey in a honey comb, but on the other hand a person that buys honey in a honey comb is not interested in liquid honey either. These are some of the things that you have to think about in order to stay in business and prosper in the business of beekeeping and honey bees.

Jimmy Jacks author of Beekeeping Made Easy.For information on beekeeping and how to profit from keeping bees Go To:
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