neenoonee

Gold Star for effort.

It's a fantastic hobby and I'd recommend anybody with enough time and patience to get into it, but it's an expensive one. Here in the UK to get a hive (base, brood box, one honey super, stand), the frames, the wax for the frames, your kit (suit, hive tools, smoker, any other tools) and then the bees, you're looking at about £600. And that's not even including books to learn enough to take on a hive, any courses you do etc.

To make any of that money back in the form of honey and other hive products, it's going to be at least a year or so before you get a decent enough honey harvest, then you've got to purchase jars and properly label them in order to sell the honey to members of the public. It's a large investment upfront.

But if you're willing to make that investment up front, it's the most rewarding thing you'll do.

You had me there for like a second, till I went to my brother "this guy knows something about bees that produce milk..."

And he went, "Jesus Abi, BOOBIES!"

When the human race most deserves it, I will withhold the bees.

Aww man I had to Google and everything!