Around the Honey House

So, we've harvested and will be bottling soon. When keeping bees you quickly realize the need for a honey house. What we have is a sticky mess in this 'honey' house. It's mostly clean now, but that's 4 mops later...

we had about 5.5 supers and 1 hive body full of frames.

isn't he cute with his bee-man hat? Naomi went to help bring them home...she looked like E.T. in my bee suit.

first we had to de-cap all the frames, which is not easy, even with a hot-knife. All hands were on deck for this chore. 

And then you spin...thank goodness for folks willing to lend their bee equipment and Drew's ingenuity--he made it possible to spin the hive with a power drill instead of a hand crank. MUCH faster!

Feel free to email if you'd like to reserve a pint or quart.

We're off to North Eastern Pennsylvania tomorrow morning to reunite and enjoy the 4th. Look forward to pics from that journey soon...