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Golden! A Bonus Honey Crop
Can you believe it, our bees were so industrious this summer that we had to go back and steal another 7 gallons of honey so that they’d have room in the hive to store fresh honey from the armloads of … Continue reading
The Bees Cleaned Up!
I got some good advice from my blogging friend, adalynfarm, and filled a tub with the sticky goo of wax cappings from the honey harvest and then set it out on top of the hives to see if the bees would do … Continue reading
Honey Crop Bottled Up
We’ve let our honey sit in 5-gallon buckets for about a week and the loose wax has floated to the top, so Joe bottled most of the honey in the bucket that has a convenient spicket at the bottom. We … Continue reading
Honey Crop 2013
Wow! We ignored our little bees for about two months while we were busy with so many other projects and this week we finally visited them again. It was time to harvest honey. (Not my own photograph) For you beekeepers … Continue reading