Barlows' Bees (WIP)

[Molly Barlow]

Barlows' Bees Business Type: Goods Concept: Molly has spent her life watching her family try to start a business for their honey, struggling to sell bottles of honey to anyone who would have them. In the time of crisis within the city, Molly has hoped to strike out and create something to bring up others spirits and her own and prove the city is not failing. The idea itself is simple, to use honey for everything. She has plans to grow the business and use honey in things from cosmetics to food and beyond, it is a way to keep her family name alive, have something to pass on and to enjoy doing what she loves and truly gain from it, as well as to introduce people to the wonders of honey. To start, her business will be small and add as time progresses and she gains more skills in her craft. Items Sold: Plain Honey | 1sm/pt Plain Honey Candy | 5cm/thumbsized drop Flavored Honeys Acacia flavored | 2sm/pt Clover flavored | 2sm/pt Blueberry flavored | 2sm/pt Linden flavored | 2sm/pt Sage flavored | 2sm/pt Wildflower flavored | 2sm/pt Candy Honey Nut filled | 10cm/thumsized drop Berry filled | 10cm/thumsized drop Ant filled | 10cm/thumsized drop Base Income: Beekeeper 6 gm/day Skill Bonus: Novice Negotiation 1 gm/day Sale's Bonus 0 gm Total Income: 7 gm/day 637 gm/season 2,548/year Assets: Shop (Simple): Includes a small wooden sign on a pole out front, rough shelves and a counter inside with a small back room. Debt:This would be where one puts what is owed after full purchase of assets. Most often, this is what is owed to those who have loaned the mizas for the business start-up. Who gave you the mizas?

[Gossamer]

My quick question is simply this. Being an irl Beekeeper myself, I know that 2-3 colonies of bees, especially their first year, won't produce any excess honey. A second or third year colony will still yield very little... only enough perhaps to partially fill a five gallon bucket. Where are you going to get all the honey to run this business?

[Molly Barlow]

That is exactly what I'm trying to figure out myself She'd have a total of 3, one new one as a gift from her parents earlier in the year but I planned on having her buy the other two seasoned colonies from her parents IC but I paid for them on my ledger now but it still wouldn't be enough I'm. I'm debating holding the business idea until she has more colonies.

If you have any other input that is great! Because I am not a beekeeper, I'm learning and reading and watching many videos to get an idea of how this all works. I figured perhaps she could start out small or I could purchase the bees from her parents or maybe even just have it be a NPC owned business (I'd have to talk to the ST) and have her work there and eventually take over during RP. Since they (having been beekeepers for awhile) would logically have more colonies.