First Honey Harvest

 

Today we had the pleasure of doing our first Honey Harvest.  Being first year beekeepers we were not anticipating honey this year but our girls have been busy and we got 2 gallons from a Super leaving them plenty to over winter.  

I have done several harvests with my mentors and learned so much about what tools work best.

The Setup:

We used a Fume Board method and brushes to remove the bees from the frames.  This worked very well.  We brought the capped frames indoors to uncap.  

Once the honey was uncapped we used our hand crank two frame extractor to easily spin out the honey.

Finally we released the honey into our bucket.

We harvested just over two gallons of liquid gold.

The last step is the bottling and packaging:

and Limoncello Blossom Honey is Born!