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our first honey harvest!
Aug. 29th, 2018 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rubibees So we got our bees in April of 2017, and although we have seen lots of honey during hive inspections, we havent felt there was enough, or that it was capped enough, to harvest it. But at the inspection about a month ago we thought things looked good and if they kept capping the honey we could harvest soon...and this past weekend greenwapiti pulled four frames out and we had our first harvest! There was one frame from the Mother hive and 3 from the Persister hive. We put them in a big pot in the sink, and then squeezed them through cheesecloth. We ended up with 5 small jars and two very small honey bears worth of delicious, dark honey. He took a jar and toothpicks in to work to share tastes, and I did the same today.
The VIP list for jars is: Marty, the O's, honey bears for Cyrus and Morgan, a jar for padrino or someone else from the house, and we havent decided on the rest.
greenwapiti pulled four frames out and we had our first harvest! There was one frame from the Mother hive and 3 from the Persister hive. We put them in a big pot in the sink, and then squeezed them through cheesecloth. We ended up with 5 small jars and two very small honey bears worth of delicious, dark honey. He took a jar and toothpicks in to work to share tastes, and I did the same today.The VIP list for jars is: Marty, the O's, honey bears for Cyrus and Morgan, a jar for padrino or someone else from the house, and we havent decided on the rest.
