At 03:00 PM 5/21/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Whitney,
>In our area if you sell honey you are a business. To process honey for
>sale, we mist have a separate "kitchen" set aside to extract and bottle
>honey. Honey bees are in such short supply in our area that most people
>welcome hives on their property.
>Check with the State Dept. of Agriculture. They must have an extension
>service in your area.
>Here in SC the public schools along with the news media have been running
>programs for public awareness as to the critical state of production
>without enough bees.
>Others may reply and give you more insight .
>
>Good luck with it.
>
>Bob Neely
>Goose Creek, SC
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>Member Lowcountry Beekeepers Association
>On Wed, 21 May 1997 12:42:30 -0600 "Whitney S. Cranshaw"
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>>The term hobby beekeeper is used all the time, but what does it mean?
>>
>>The reason for my question is that a local beekeeper is being asked to
>>move
>>his hives because because this is considered to be an agricultural
>>enterprise prohibited within city limits.  His defense is that he is
>>only a
>>hobby beekeeper and therefore exempt.  But this needs to be better
>>defined.
>>
>>Is there limit to the number of hives that determines a hobby
>>beekeeper?
>>Does selling for profit define if a beekeeper is a hobbyist or not?
>>
>>Any ideas/help?
>>
>>Whitney Cranshaw
>>Colorado, USA
>>
>   Check your local zoning laws.  If your community prohits agricultural
projects, such as, a flower garden, vegatable garden, beekeeping is also an
agricultural project, then it can not be ban.
 
If you make a profit in beekeeping then you really must be doing something
the rest of the beekeeper cannot do. Make a profit. To be a commercial
beekeeper it goes by size of your hobby, not if you sell honey.
>
                                             Gus