How I Went from Hobby Beekeeper to Self-Employed Beekeeper | Starting a Beekeeping Business

This is how I went from 1 hive in my backyard to making enough money to quit my job and become a full-time beekeeper.

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[thomasrape]

I'm in my first year and it's been tough because of the severe drought here in Texas. First I started working with an 80 year old bee keeper who started in his teens. I then built 2 long Lang hives and ordered some unassembled frames. I then built several swarm traps and put them out. I got my first bees from a cut out then managed to catch more in one of my traps. Starting in a drought has given me a crash course in keeping bees alive and if I can get my 2 so far strong hives through winter I might actually get some honey this coming year. My plan is to increase from 2 hives to 10 by mid sommer.

[fabiankalis]

Nothing better than turning your hobby into a small business. And what better business than a bee business right? Greetings from a skep beekeeper from Germany.

[erikesparza]

I 1000% support you, im in TN and haven't even gotten a hive yet, but I'm excited to start this year. Please make more videos

[richardpraeger]

Great Story. We made a special trip across the island to visit Big Island Bees while on vacation. Super great people.

[adkfoothills]

Another great video, Laryssa and I enjoyed listening to your story. Can't wait to watch the entire series.

[brucesbees]

Great stuff Laryssa. I love your story. Looking forward to this series.

[vanessa]

You have no idea how inspiring and helpful this video was! I am currently working full-time in a non-related field but want to make the transition to exactly what you were talking about and maybe make a career in this. I guess the best place to start is to shadow beekeepers/work for a honey farm. Any other advice? (I dont have space to have my own hive currently)

[onevalewa]

Loving following you as im in the tropics too!... got one strong hive, lost 3 so far....

[tomcatmeow]

Love the info and your story. I'm way up in Ontario Canada and retired but want to do beekeeping and make a business out of it. I'm in a city called Kitchener of about half a milliion people. I own a house with a decent size yard so I'll be starting out there but I'm also researching what type of hive to use that gets bees through a cold winter. I've discovered the bee barn from vino farm on youtube. I want to watch all your videos for sure over time. I'm not starting up the apiary until spring of 2025 so I have lots of time. Also did the University of Arkansas free online course for beekeeping which was my first dabble at learning. I'm fortunate that there is a really good university called University of Guelph only 20 minutes away that has classes and hands on experience. I would really appreciate if you did some videos on the actual processing of the honey into jars for sale and all the equipment the company you worked for used. I'm not sure if you have done videos on that but that would be a good topic to expand on if you haven't.

[johnnybstuddd]

Thats an amazing story how you got started in bee keeping. I'm just a hobby bee keeper here in Georgia. I'm looking into selling honey in a local shop, but idk if the Cottage Food Law is in affect here, so I'm researching it now. Thanks for sharing your story

[Bluegrass]

Enjoyed your vedio
Would love to see your method of producing comb honey 🍯
Thank you

[monicapezze]

I am a female beek on the big island and would love to meet you!

[dcsblessedbees]

After a 2nd Winter that would be difficult.👍

[zooflorida]

I saw what looked like a black cat in the driveway, does this video count? I would love to win a course! I love your teaching style, and I am saving up for the equipment. Thank you!

[GURSHANTARAN]

I want to work with you. I have 13 year experience in bee keeping

[benjaminchavez]

I'm wondering how often you do live streams?

[nkanyisosimelane]

How much its cost to start bee keeping busines

[krishnagautam]

I want to bee keeping partnership with foreign people in nepal can you help me ? I am weating of suggestions .

[hootervillehoneybees]

Beautiful common sense motivate your the full package its good thing you don't live in in Michigan id never get anything done id be to busy laying rose's at your feet. Something about you extremely attractive goes why beyond looks .. comb honey is big seller .. i have guy wants to quit bees and just work on sales .. he ordered 5k lb of honey but wants to do the extraction i just drop off the honey suppers . He also wants 100 suppers of comb honey.. also took a order for 100 med nucs and that's were im messing up selling bees .. id make more in long building my operation numbers making honey.. im at 212 units right now. That's very cool you're old boss husband did the heavy lifting and she triples the price of his honey.. that's what I need buisness partner like that . I could put it on my website.. found out today can ship 5 gallon buckets thru ups . This next season plan on pulling off each flow and placing in drying room get it down to that 16% .. by keeping them separate basically doubles the value. Now you have different flavors colors.. i can see now that selling nucs is a mistake till I get my 500 units. Just hard not to take 20k in over winter helps me get things ahead of time.

[munishthakur]

I am from India and I want to work in beekeeping and I need work. Can I get a job in your country? I have 10 years of experience in beekeeping with Apis mellifera.