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Mark B. asks $8.00 to produce a lb of honey? Yes!
I live on a small 'hobby farm' growing vegetables, plants, selling eggs and
honey all to local folks. I do it because I love the lifestyle and I work
long hours off the farm to be able to support it and all the usual
expences. We are all organic and I have not treated any of my hives though
I have certainly lost hives as a result. When I do I start again with a
package, a nuc or a split. Their are all kinds of profit in what I do but
not any finacial gain.
You are absolutely correct that my problem is one of scale. If I produced
more honey it would cost me less to produce. But that would feel a lot like
a job and I have one of those already.
I have a lot of respect as well as concern for commercial beekeepers-I
don't know how you do it! I am certainly glad that I don't have to.
My 'big' contribution to beekeeping is all the money I spend each year on
supplies, books and magazines, and bees. my best, Howard
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