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First year honey operation

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Our first year of honey operation will start next year, however harvesting honey probably won't start until the following year.  Why?  Well one way of providing a good insurance policy is to allow the bees to collect honey in their new environment and keep it all.  This new territory of La Gonave will have different flowers, trees, temperature, etc than what the bees are use to.  The bees will have to scout the land to find locations of water, pollen, and nectar.  So literally the first year the bees will be getting use to La Gonave, and their hive setup. During that year however, we will be building hive boxes, building the honeybee highway, and continuing education for those interested in beekeeping.  We will setup workshops that will educate people on ways to harvest honey.  Also during that year we will be planning locations for our expansion, building/planning where the observation hive will be, and of course raising more money for the progra...