I have a dozen or so hives in the southern UK. I keep the bees deliberately
as a hobby and not to make a profit. The profit motive stops it being a hobby,
so I plough any surplus into my continuing education as a beekeeper or the
occasional donation to a bee-charity. I have been keeping records of my income
and expenditure since 1999 in case the tax man asks for a cut of the profits
he imagines I make, and on 9th of May this year I was 9 pence ahead! They went
into deficit whan they paid for my entry to Apimondia but now are ahead
again.
Like many beekeepers I spend more time talking and typing about them than
actually playing with them.
Chris
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