My kids love honey.
That, my friends, is one of the greatest understatements ever. My youngest would eat it on anything and everything. PB&H is his go-to sandwich.
Truth be known, we adults love it, too 🙂
We all have heard that local honey is best. True that. It is also expensive. A budget buster at the rate we go through it.
I have some good friends who started keeping honeybees last year, and I always thought it would work out well… maybe we could barter eggs for honey once their honey production was up.
Then I realized I would need a LOT more chickens (and they’d need a LOT more bees) in order for that to be anywhere near a workable solution.
Jokingly, I mentioned to Jerry that we should get our own bees and teach the kids how to be beekeepers and raise our own honey.
Funny how a joke can turn. Continue reading Adding an Apiary