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I have no idea about beekeeping economies, could someone shed a bit of light here please? At $2000 shipping + $400/month it seems expensive, but it claims 24 colonies which seems like a lot, so how much does a colony produce per year? How much should it produce to make it worth this investment?

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1. Hives rent for $40-$200 per month.

2. A well maintained hive can easily double in size over a single season ($150).

3. A hive can easily produce 25 lbs of honey in a single season ($125 wholesale, or $250+ direct).

If it can really manage 24 colonies extremely well, $16 per colony per month is NOTHING.

I guess you cannot calculate only a produce of those bees. Trees and flowers pollinated are a significant "side effect" that we neef for our survival.

I assumed this would be a commercial application in the vast majority of cases, where I'm from we don't have a bee problem so it didn't occur to me that this could be setup from a charity just for the wellbeing of the bees.

Moloch cares not for trees and flowers.

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