Well, we haven't been very good beekeepers. Every summer our bees swarm, yet every summer they survive somehow without much help from us. Earlier this year we had some very aggressive bees that kept stinging me anytime I got close, so I was secretly hoping they would die out this year.
This summer, however, I was weeding around their beehive without them even coming near me, so I got Bob to check the hive. It was loaded with honey!!! We've only harvested a few frames of honey, so I was glad to get a whole bunch! We call it liquid gold :)
Bob calms the bees by smoking them out.
Trying to lift out the frame
We don't have the fancy equipment that spins the honey out of the frame, so this is the alternative method. Here I'm cutting off the cap.
This is a picture of a frame that shows the beautiful honeycomb they build. It wasn't ready so we put that frame back in.
After the cap is cut off I just scraped the honey into a colander.
It will separate the bees wax from the honey.
I put it through several finer sieves.
Then I filled my jars. Mmmm...Yumm!!
