>>5096121
>Can you do that in semi-urban/suburban areas?
Yes, but chances are, they'll have problems finding food.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00046-6
The study is for Switzerland, but it's a universal problem:
https://peerj.com/articles/14699/
There are more hobbyist beekeepers than there is food for bees in urban environments. The first victims are wild bees, but even when they're eliminated, there are still too many bees for the food available, leading to weak colonies, susceptible to parasites and diseases.
Since these weak colonies are susceptible to parasites and diseases, their foreseeable collapse then leads to more cries about how bees are dying... because there are too many bees.
So chances are, if you start beekeeping, your bees will be poorly fed, weak and sick.

Im going to be attempting beekeeping soon as well, but there will also be a large garden on the property and on neighboring properties to feed them. Ive drove around and there is only one other person somewhat nearby with hives.

>>5096126
So I guess the right move would be to settle deeper into the country side and to map out every beekeeping operations there is around so I can find the right spot.

>>5096121
I started keeping bees a fair few years ago after working in IT Support gave me a nervous breakdown and I needed something different, a non computer hobby

I'm in the North of England and have a couple of hives in my garden, sort of in the suburbs - which is the best place for bees because people plant a variety of flowers in their gardens which flower all through the summer months
Honey Bees will fly about three miles to forage

They get more than enough honey for their uses, usually having quite a surplus after winter
I usually extract half a dozen very large jars (mason jars) of honey a year, I could take more if I wanted but I mostly do this for fun.

>How much time per week you have to put in this for it to work?
Couple of hours once per week during swarm season. You need to inspect for new queen cells and squish them to stop the bees swarming (your neighbours won't be happy if they do, and your old Queen and a third of your old workers will fly off - along with a large portion of honey in their stomachs)
This is during May to July, but depends largely on your local climate and nectar flow
>Is it hard to learn?
My club did a weekend course, then I just did some reading afterwards
See if you've got a local aparist club
The bees largely take care of themselves


You can get some bumble bee hives to start with if you want, you basically do nothing with them
But they only last about six weeks and they don't produce honey