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🍯 What Beekeeping Really Costs to Start

An itemised 3D beekeeping startup budget: build a shelf of hives, bees, protective gear and equipment and watch a honey jar gauge fill with your first-year UK cost.

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Build a shelf of real starter equipment — hives, bees, protective gear, tools and an extractor — and watch a honey jar gauge fill with your realistic first-year UK cost.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Startup cost is driven by a handful of choices: hive count, how you acquire your bees, gear tier, condition (new vs secondhand), and whether you buy or borrow an extractor. Each choice adds or removes a 3D prop and moves the honey level.

🎮 How to Use

Set the number of hives, choose a bee source and gear tier, then toggle secondhand equipment and extractor ownership. The shelf restocks live and the jar fills to your first-year total.

💡 Did You Know?

Borrowing a club extractor instead of buying one can save a single-hive beginner several hundred pounds in year one — often more than switching from a nucleus to a caught swarm.

⚙ Under the hood

An itemised 3D beekeeping startup budget: build a shelf of hives, bees, protective gear and equipment and watch a honey jar gauge fill with your first-year UK cost.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install