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🍯 Value-Added Bee Products: Harvest-to-Market Lab

A live 3D model of an apiary turning raw harvest into honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen and royal jelly, with hive count, diversification and season driving income for each product line.

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A ring of five product pedestals — honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen and royal jelly — each topped with a live 3D bar that rises and falls as hive count, diversification and season change what an apiary actually earns.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Honey is usually the largest volume product but not always the best-paid per kilogram. As diversification rises, a slice of comb, propolis, pollen and royal jelly is diverted from raw honey into higher-margin, separately sold products — shifting the mix of where an apiary's income actually comes from.

🎮 How to Use

Drag hive count and diversification to reshape the bars, switch season to see which products are naturally abundant when, and use focus product to spotlight one pedestal and compare it against the honey-only baseline income.

💡 Did You Know?

Royal jelly and propolis tincture can sell for ten to twenty times more per kilogram than jarred honey — small quantities that still add real income once processed and packaged for market.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D apiary scene with five glowing pedestals — honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen and royal jelly — each topped by a live revenue bar; sliders and selects for hive count, diversification, season and product focus recompute per-product income in real time and compare it against a honey-only baseline.

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