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Tips for Bee Farm Keepers

• Research honey production standards that might be applicable to you. Feeding bees artificial pollen could be an issue in your state.
• If you are taking care of a small honey farm full-time, you can do it alone, but hire someone to help you extract honey when the time comes. You’d need to hire hand for bigger farms or else your operation could fall into pieces for lack of manpower and proper maintenance.
• Employ your family and kids especially if you are farming full-time, it will help keep expenses down and is a good way to start the children young into the business.
• The kind of honey produced depends on what they are fed. Different flowers, because of their different complex sugar ratios, produce different flavours of honey. The most commonly used plants by larger honey producers is canola. Experiment on different kinds of flowers, to see the results. You could specialize in producing a certain kind of honey for a niche market.
• Heat employed when extracting honey affects the quality of honey, some small operations avoid it as much as possible to preserve the quality of their produce.