I started beekeeping back in 2008, while I was still attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. It really started out as a joke, you see my wife has an insect phobia and I just wanted to mess with her. So after she called my bluff I was forced to buy a book called "Beekeeping for Dummies", which is a good starter book but doesn't go into enough detail, so that you can be truly successful at beekeeping. It worked for a few weeks, but once again she tried to call my bluff, which turned out to be a big mistake on her part since I don't like to lose and will go to any lengths. Unfortunately by the time I had made up my mind to start beekeeping it was late July, and impossible to get bees. Plus if I had been able to find some bees they wouldn't have survived the winter since they couldn't get their numbers up fast enough.
So in the spring of 2009, I was able to purchase one 3 lbs. package of Carniolan bees, which I figured would suit me best since I live in the city of Chicago. That first year was a blast. Now I did make some mistakes, but the bees survived the winter and I acquired two more hives. After working and watching the bees I decided that this would a great business opportunity. After that Chicago Sweet Stuff was born.
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