The practice and hobby of maintaining honeybee colonies in order to harvest honey, wax, and other bee products.
From 'beekeeper' in its verbal form. The practice itself is ancient, but the systematic, documented hobby emerged in the 1800s with improved hive designs and scientific understanding.
Beekeeping became a genuine science revolution in the 1800s when Langstroth invented the movable-frame hive—suddenly beekeepers could inspect colonies without destroying them, turning beekeeping from a destructive practice into sustainable farming!
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