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WHY OWN BEES

Pure, sweet golden honey, of course!
Honeybees can also play a vital role in pollination of crops on small-scale hobby farms.
Beehives produce a multitude of other substances with a variety of benefits, including bees wax, propolis, and pollen.
With beeswax from your own hives, you could produce personal goods, like candles, lotions, salves, lip balms, soaps, and even in cooking at home quite easily.
Nothing beats going into your own garden and watching bees working feverishly to bring valuable contributions back to their hive all while pollinating your vegetables and flowers.

Start producing early in the spring
Early production allows for increased population growth
More likely to swarm (their effort to relieve overcrowding)
Can handle harsher, colder climates better than other stocks
Less likely to rob other colonies of honey, which lessens the chances of disease

Prolific honey producers
Comparably less defensive than other stocks
Brood rearing exhibited for long durations, starting in springtime, can cause them to eat surplus honey if supers aren’t removed after flow
More likely to rob other colonies of honey, which increases the chances of disease
Tend not to swarm