Thanks for sharing your passion for bees with us! Interesting pics. I'm curious, do you eat the honey they produce yourself or sell it at a local farmer's market or something?
My grandparents were really into beekeeping and producing all their own natural foods. Wish I didn't have to get everything off of supermarket shelves, but that's life in the big city I guess. :-)
My family and I usually go through about 5 gallons of honey that they produce every year. I sell the honey to an ever-increasing customer base that has expanded through word of mouth. I find myself moving farther and farther away from the city, but it keeps catching up with me!
5 gallons of honey, wow that's a lot! I go shopping at Costco sometimes and ogle the size of the honey containers they sell... that's probably the most I've seen at once. Sounds like a good little business you've got going for yourself.
I wouldn't exactly call it a "business", I would call it a hobby that doesn't cost me money. Which is important. ALL of my other hobbies produced red ink, which is why my lovely bride likes this one the best!