In Business with Bees

IntroductionChapter 1: Growing Your Operation-How Big Do You Want to Get? More info on professional business planning, working with banks and USDA loan agencies, USDA programs for beginner agriculture Trading Time for Money Business Goals and Bigger Pictures Buying Equipment Breakthrough: Lease Land for Beeyards Expanding Your Honey House Chapter 2: A New Look at Honey Production De-emphasis on honey production due to increased competition with foreign honey and smaller returns. Meanwhile focusing on how to grow margins on local honey when volume is lower. What it Once Was and Why It Changed Non-Agricultural Areas Expanding Natural Bloom Migratory Beekeeping for Nectar Crops Planning a Honey Crop Growing Your Own, with Help How Much Land Is Required? Working with Landowners with Lots of Land Recommended Plantings for Honey Bees This Land Is My Land Chapter 3: Royalty-Finding the Best Queen Royal Lineage The Queens We Can Get What Do You Want from Your Bees? What Kind of Beekeeper Are You? Buying Queens Raising Your Own Queens Raising Production Queens Background Check for Drone Colonies Chapter 4: The Working Class-The Bees that Beekeepers Keep Enhanced chapter for better moneymaking. Far less basic beekeeping info, more focus on having the right bees, timing, and methods. Keeping bees is easier if youre not making honey, so this is a new shift. Updating electronic monitoring equipment and cloud storage options, but more important is not the how but the why: economics, labor, speed. Preventing Springtime Swarming All About Honey Production Pests and Other Problems Chapter 5: Pollination Writing contracts, equipment needed, understanding pesticides, partnering with other beekeepers and pollination brokers, moving to staging yards, protection/nutrition in staging yards, working with growers on providing forage, and how to calculate your fee.Chapter 6: Wintering Your Bees Wintering indoors has become more popular and efficient and may no longer require building a separate structure-rather than moving bees to southern climates. Traditional wintering outside is also covered. Winter Rules Take Care of the Bees The Natural Question How Much Honey? When Its Really Cold Pollen Summary Glossary Resources Suppliers Index Credits About the Author Acknowledgments