Honey Harvest

A week and a half ago Dar was able to harvest the honey for the first time from his first beehive. It's actually been a really neat experience to watch him learn about and take care of his first hive. He's done awesome, and I love seeing his face light up when he gets to go tend to his bees. He absolutely loves it! I can bet ya that we'll be getting a second beehive next year, although he hasn't said he wants another one for sure yet.

He was able to harvest the honey from 10 frames, although they weren't all full. When all was said and done he got about 4 gallons (weighing around 50 pounds) of honey!! I was so excited when I went to pick him up after he was done harvesting and was surprised to see how much honey he got! Pretty cool. If any of you are locals and know where we are, let us know if you want some raw local honey. We'll sell you some :)

Getting the extractor figured out

Scraping the wax caps off the honey

Bee wax that we're going to try to make lip balm and stuff with

Technology is so nice. Can you imagine spinning the honey by hand?

The honey is double sifted to make sure all the wax and stuff gets separated out

The honey is delish!! It looks great, tastes great, and the best part of all is that it came from our very own beehive! I think it's safe to say that Dar's first season of beekeeping has been a complete success :) Bring on season #2!