BUILD A Honey EXTRACTOR
As animal husbandry costs go, the price of bees and beekeeping supplies is quite a bargain, but setting up an apiary still runs into money if you have many colonies. My husband, Dwayne, and I got into a home honey operation some years ago — it sort of snuck up on us — and from the start, we’ve tried to reduce expenses by making some of our own equipment.
We’ve found, for example, that we can save a substantial amount of money by building our own bee housing. We bought our first hive and super, and Dwayne made the rest using the commercial products for patterns so that the parts of all units are interchangeable. Because we have quite a bit of scrap lumber handy, the only investment
