A couple of years ago, Joe got a beehive. The bees did well at first and then they got a disease. Over the course of the next year, they battled the disease and got better. Last year, we were too busy to harvest honey. This year, he finally got around to doing it. The first step is to get the part of the hive that you are going to rob. Then after you get it out of the hive, and get the bees out of it (Joe did this last part by driving down the road on his 4-wheeler with the piece of the hive on the back). Then you pull out the frames where the honey is stored.
You cut off the top of the honey comb to expose the cells underneath.
Then you stick the frame into the extractor. You crank the handle to centrifuge the honey out of the frame. You have to do this for each side of the frame.
Then you drain out the extractor into a filter.
This shows how Joe transported his hive on his 4-wheeler.
We were able to harvest 1 1/2 gallons of honey. It is a very rich dark honey that tastes delicious!
2 comments:
That is awesome. Now your family can avoid allergies too! How often could you harvest that much honey?
That is awesome! Laun has a bee suit (in all seriousness-he got it from my Grandpa who used to harvest honey), so he will have to harvest us some honey someday-I would love that.
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