Day 4: Build your start budget · Profitable Beekeeping

Day 4: Build your start budget

Day 4. Today you build a start budget, and you can do it for any amount.

Task: list every item you need to start, the price, and where you would buy it. Mark each one new or used. If you have about $200, here is what that realistically buys: a jacket, hive tool, smoker, two used deep boxes with clean frames, a bottom board, a lid and a swarm lure. It does not buy bees or a full new hive. A swarm is free but may not come, so plan the cost of a nuc or package as your backup.

Reply with your total and one item you can build, borrow or buy used to lower it.

@Gus Lutjens

@Xander Du Preez

@Tommy Gan

if you were starting over with about $200, what would you buy first, and what would you leave for later?

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Day 4: Build your start budget