We have experienced many caretakers that elevate honey equally as a leisure activity with no desired earnings. When you decide to become an expert who takes the honey maintaining as a task, the number and size of the hives needs to be taken into account. Since keeping an eye on one hive will not take longer than half an hour each day after that you can care for a dozen or 2 without much problem, specifically if you practiced honey bee maintaining as a pastime before. So it's far better to acquire even more hives.