02-28-2007, 05:20 PM
If you want to start, just jump in. We raised bees on my families ranches, its really easy to learn. Another beekeeper makes it easier, but you could do it by yourself with a good book, a bonnet, a smoker, a hive and white painter's coveralls. We used to harvest honey in shorts with a long sleeve shirt and a bonnet and not get stung hardly at all. Harvesting wild stock is really easy too, it seemed like every year ours would send out a new colony and we would go get them. In fact we would sell our captured stock after we got them hived for good money. I have keep a hive almost everywhere I have lived, soon as we put down permenant roots here I probably will do it again. If you are interested look on the web, I am sure there is enough to get you started.