Honey Harvest

Thomas does bee box inspections periodically. Yesterday he determined it was time to harvest honey.




It is important to take a frame or two of capped honey and leave behind 4 or 5 frames for the bees.

Gently brush the bees off.



Now we take each frame and scrape the cap and honey off. Since we don't use an extractor we simply use a pantyhose and gravity. Yes the thin nylon weave of a pantyhose is an excellent filter.



A lick here and a lick there after an hour of work I was drunk on honey. It was tasty.