I am 39 and engaged to a spec'ed teacher who is a HEALTH NUT, me not so much......So she wanted to start raising our own honey,
If wanting a few jars of honey is the ONLY reason for keeping bees - well, that's gonna be a helluva lot of hassle/work for such a relatively small reward. Better - and cheaper - perhaps to have located a local beekeeper and buy a few jars of honey from him/her. In fact, that's not a bad idea anyway: to visit a local beekeeper and see first-hand for yourselves a little of what's involved - for there's a lot more to keeping bees successfully than (say) having a handful of chickens scratching around the yard.
Your acreage sounds like a very nice patch in which to be living - but in bee-terms, that's actually quite a small drop in the ocean. Bees forage for several miles in all directions, and if you run the numbers that becomes several thousand acres - so it's whatever forage exists within that much larger area which will determine the quantity and type of honey you'll be extracting.
Extracting honey. That brings me to another issue. Basically, there are two ways of approaching the keeping of bees. One is to go down the road of being a 'mini-commercial' beekeeper - what I mean by this is keeping bees in a conventional manner - in conventional boxes, and on frames fitted with foundation. As the term implies, the 'foundation' gives the bees a structure upon which to draw their combs. To preserve those combs, such beekeepers usually extract honey using machinery which is expensive, and for the hobbyist it's wise to join with others (say, in a beekeeping club or association) to share that expense.
The other approach to beekeeping is commonly known as 'Top-Bar Beekeeping' - which is basically a 'hands-off' philosophy in which the bees are left to draw their combs as they wish. When harvesting such combs, the honey is extracted by crushing (i.e. destroying the combs) by hand and then straining the resulting honey- which is an ok method if you have but a few hives, but would be impractical if you had dozens.
There IS a middle-ground (using foundationless framed hives), but I won't expand of that here - as there's quite enough confusing stuff to master with the basics.
So - my immediate advice would be to search out and go visit a local beekeeper - and have a chat with him/her - and take it from there. Good luck.
LJ