This would be great to do so,...how nice of you!

I would call your local bee keeping club, or put a ad in the paper.
There are always folks out there, who would like to get into bee keeping but have no place to put hives.
Just make sure that you don't get toooo...many hives, ..a hobby keeper with not more then
5 hives or so if your house is near by.
You can always give some honey away as gifts...when you taste fresh unheated cold extracted honey, you might want to keep it and get hooked on it LOL.

Konrad

there's a local bee keeping club? how do i find it?

First off were do you live " City - County - State > then perhaps someone can help you ?

They are probably not listed in your phone book, you may go to your Co.Ag.agent he would probably know.

Now with the price of gas people probably won't travel far for just 1 or 2 hives.
Good Luck, there are a lot of nice beekeepers, probably some not too far from you.

Murrell

johnson city, broome county, NY. is there anyone with bees close by?

Here is a link to a few NY clubs. I'm not sure if any are nearby where you live. You can also google NY state beekeepers association. good luck

Here is a link that might be useful: http://beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214974