Late August 2010
Rick is removing the capped frames from the beehive for harvesting. He brushed be bees from the frames, and then we placed them in a covered cooler until it was full and then we brought it inside.
Rayna is supervising to make sure Rick is doing everything right.
This video shows how we scraped the honeycomb from the frames. Really high-tech, I know. we used a putty knife to scrape the honey comb into a bucket. Then we crushed the honeycomb, releasing the honey from the cells.
We strained the honey through a filter and then put the honey in jars.
This is what we got from the first harvest. The next day were were able to get 2 more pints from what was left in the filter. We had another harvest probably a month later and got about the same amount again. Not bad for our first year. Thank-you alfalfa farmer in our back yard!
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