Bee farming, also known as apiculture, is the practice of keeping and maintaining bee colonies, commonly in man-made beehives. Bee farmers aim to run profitable business enterprises based on the management of stocks of honey bees. The purpose of bee farming is to produce honey, beeswax, and other edible bee products, as well as to provide crop pollination services and the sale of bees to other beekeepers. Beekeeping can be run as a hobby or as a large-scale agricultural business. To be sustainable, a bee farming business needs to ensure its honey bee stocks are well-managed to ensure the bees are kept in optimum condition, healthy, and disease-free. High standards of health and welfare of honey bee stocks are essential to ensure business models are sustainable. Bee farming is also important for reversing pollinator decline, and the industry provides managed and targeted pollination services to help improve crop yields and increase productivity. The profitability of a bee farming business is influenced by the size of the operation, efficiency of colony management, and product processing. To start beekeeping, one needs to learn how to start a honey bee farm, which requires some unique considerations such as providing water, sun, a sturdy hive, and feeding during some parts of the year. Beekeeping has grown in popularity in recent years, and the raw honey, beeswax, and royal jelly are much sought-after products.