Firstly you can't keep bees in a perfectly natural way! the word 'keep' nullifies that.
Your colonies will produce honey in excess of their requirements year on year !. What do you do when you have a surfeit of honey in the hive ? , queenie has nowhere to lay . do you use a queen excluder and pile on the supers ? Then what ?. Don't use a QX and let her run throughout the hive ? If so, soon you'll have hive + supers bursting with bees and brood . How then do you control swarming ? .'Control' another word that doesn't sit well with the leave alone ethic !. Swarm control is essential , otherwise ,the public will soon regard the honeybee as a nuisance to be eradicated rather than saved.
Beekeeping is an occupation requiring skill observation , total commitment and a 'Love' of bees .
Laudable though it be to wish to help the honey bee. (and I wish you every success ), please be aware that , by keeping bees, you are in no way helping the bee to re-establish itself in the wild (an ideal situation), the advent of the varroa has seen to that.
By keeping bees you are artificially sustaining a bee population for propagation of crops, garden flowers etc, until a cure for and an answer to the problems faced by the bees is found (or occurs naturally).
Should you press on with your venture, I'm sure you will soon find that your circle of friends will increase and most of them will love honey

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John Wilkinson