I tried that, but had to mine to find rocky bees! I suppose the villagers could solve that though, or you could get lucky and find an exposed one in a ravine or a cave. It is a fun idea though, bees are awesome, and the number of things they can provide you is vast.
P.S. There is one hitch. You have to have the stuff to make and power a centrifuge to get anything from bees, and lots of the output needs secondary machines as well. So
some mining is probably required.
Edit: Just read the map post, didn't realize the villagers would have all that. Nice idea. Now for the next level, make a void-world floating island map, people can't cheat and mine if there's nothing to mine.
That's because those aren't the droids you're looking for.