Ep. 3245 - STORY: Six-Figure Beekeeping Biz Buzzes for Minnesota Couple
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The buzzworthy journey of Minnesotan bees and their keepers. These hardy bees don’t mess around—last year they produced $150,000 in sweet profits.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.9 | My friends, let's go on a buzzworthy adventure. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm excited. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm here to tell you about the stinging side hustle of a Minnesota couple. |
| 1:05.0 | This couple makes a sweet six-figure income for keeping bees. |
| 1:09.4 | Keeping bees. |
| 1:10.3 | There's golden-in-be bees, as they say. These are |
| 1:12.9 | Minnesota hardy bees. They go dog sledding in the middle of winter before shopping at Target. |
| 1:18.3 | They are bred to survive and also bred to make a lot of money for their keepers. I enjoyed working on |
| 1:23.3 | this story. Six-figure beekeeping biz buzzes for Minnesota couple. These hardy bees aren't messing around. Stay tuned for the story, six-figure beekeeping biz buzzes for Minnesota couple. These hardy bees aren't messing |
| 1:28.9 | around. Stay tuned for the story. Whenever I buy something online, I probably do the same thing that you do. |
| 1:38.0 | And if you think about it, like there might be some different steps you take when you're doing |
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