Beekeeper Kip Isonhood Shares How Bees Make Honey in Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -Mississippi produces 2.25 million pounds of honey each year! The state has around 20,000 bee colonies. Each bee colony produces an average of 87 pounds of honey each year.

Beekeeper Kip Isonhood of Yazoo County visited Studio 3 and brought some bee colonies. He discussed how it makes honey.

Isonhood also shared his honey that he makes to sell in Central Mississippi.

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