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🍯 Starting and Running a Beekeeping Cooperative

A practical overview of forming a beekeeping cooperative in the UK, covering legal structure, governance, shared purchasing, and sales channels.

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A ring of member beehives feeds honey into a shared cooperative hub, which grades, bottles and routes it out through wholesale, farm-shop and online direct sales channels.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Pooling honey through a cooperative averages out payouts across members, while independent selling passes each hive's harvest variance straight through to income — shown live in the payout spread.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the number of member hives, yield per hive, and the wholesale/direct sales mix. Toggle pooling on and off to compare income stability, and reshuffle the harvest to see new variance between members.

💡 Did You Know?

Many UK beekeeping cooperatives register as a Community Benefit Society, letting members share one extraction line, one food-safety registration and one brand instead of each bearing the setup cost alone.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hub-and-spoke scene where member beehives flow honey into a shared cooperative building that grades and routes it to wholesale, farm-shop and online channels, letting you compare pooled versus independent selling and see how each affects member income stability.

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