Brighton Honey

On Starting A Honey Production Business

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Ward Graham

Founder, Brighton Honey

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Brighton Honey

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from Rochester, New York, USA

started August 2010

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My name is Ward Graham, I am a beekeeper; My degree is in environmental engineering and civil engineering, and I also have a degree in forestry and an undergraduate degree in science and mathematics. My actual day job is something completely different; I work for a telecom company as more or less a network consultant, where I talk to customers about how to integrate technology into their existing infrastructure.

I started Brighton Honey as an experiment simply for the challenge. My main goal is to produce artisanal honey local to my area that is of exceptionally high quality. Supermarket honey is simply a poor facsimile of real honey and may not even contain honey. My customers are honey connoisseurs of sorts and like myself in that they appreciate the clean, flavors of local honey.

Beekeeping is a lot of work and scaling to match my market demand is my main goal. However, I will never scale past what I could not handle myself. I started beekeeping about 10 or more years ago with 2 hives to get familiar with what beekeeping entails and if I could deal with honeybees in general. I always had an interest in beekeeping since I was young, however, I was never able to keep bees. After spending the first 10 years renovating my house I was able to concentrate on...

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