Tag Archives: honey

Golden! A Bonus Honey Crop

Posted on August 23, 2013 by bluestempond

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 →

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The Bees Cleaned Up!

Posted on August 7, 2013 by bluestempond

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 →

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Honey Crop Bottled Up

Posted on July 19, 2013 by bluestempond

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 →

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Honey Crop 2013

Posted on July 12, 2013 by bluestempond

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 →

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