Thinking about becoming an urban beekeeper
I'm a 79yo woman living in Los Angeles on a suburban half acre. I'm seriously thinking about setting up a hive. My fruit trees would benefit from it and I'd feel good about increasing the number of pollinators in the world.
My concerns are that my 4yo granddaughter lives with her family on our property. I think she would benefit from seeing more of nature. She enjoys our chickens and is appropriate with our cats. But I certainly don't want her getting stung! Besides that, no one here is particularly interested in honey. And, finally, I'm not sure how my neighbors would be about it. They forced us to kill a rooster. It's been years and I'm still not completely over that.
What I'm thinking of is a Flow hive to reduce the physical labor.
I'd be grateful to get some advice before I make an expensive and possibly painful mistake.