DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.
This was the first year Darwin rented a honey extractor and he extracted the honey at his parent's house. We ended up with three hives this year (because his original hive swarmed twice in a week) so we were really hoping to get more honey than we have in the past. We still only ended up with about 4 gallons. That okay though. Maybe next year...we have our fingers crossed that all three hives survive the winter.
Savy enjoyed the honey drips right off the bat :)
Cuties. At first Darwin just let the extractor go on its own. Then he realized if he used his body to cram it against the wall to keep it from shaking uncontrollably, he could put it on a higher speed and get the honey extracted faster.
Filtering the honey
Savy kept trying to stick her finger in it to get a taste of the delicious golden honey so I ended up taking the girls out to the garden to help me pick veggies. Plus, the bees started finding their way in to the garage and Rori was freaking out a little bit (she still clearly remembers getting stung by a "Princess Bee" on her thumb in the springtime and doesn't like being in close proximity to Daddy's bees).
Even though we didn't get as much as we were hoping for we're still really glad to have what we got! We've had a waiting list of people who already wanted to buy honey from us as soon as we harvested. We're not the only ones who love this stuff!!
The bees swarmed back in May and I'm pretty sure I didn't post about it because I was going to leave that up to Darwin. He's really busy too though so he never got around to it. Dar's dad has a really nice camera (we want one like his!) so these pictures look awesome!
Luckily both swarms stayed in the backyard and Dar's dad was around to see them. Dar had to rush over there after work both times in order to catch the swarms before they took off somewhere else. The first swarm too shelter in the top of the pear tree. Dar had to carefully climb up and gently saw off the branch they were on. I was at home with the girls so I missed it both times, but I'm glad to have the pictures!
Awesome pictures! I love it!!
My handsome beekeeper :)
Putting the bees in their new home
Dar invited our neighbor, Jeremy, to help him out. Jeremy is the one who introduced Dar to beekeeping a few years ago.
I guess we didn't get pictures of the second swarm. The original hive swarmed a second time later that same week and swarmed in the apple trees that time. Darwin said they weren't quite as easy to capture the second time because they were more spread out, but he got them! We really hope we get a better honey harvest next year. I'm glad Darwin has this fun little hobby :)
Filtering the honey
Savy kept trying to stick her finger in it to get a taste of the delicious golden honey so I ended up taking the girls out to the garden to help me pick veggies. Plus, the bees started finding their way in to the garage and Rori was freaking out a little bit (she still clearly remembers getting stung by a "Princess Bee" on her thumb in the springtime and doesn't like being in close proximity to Daddy's bees).
Even though we didn't get as much as we were hoping for we're still really glad to have what we got! We've had a waiting list of people who already wanted to buy honey from us as soon as we harvested. We're not the only ones who love this stuff!!
The bees swarmed back in May and I'm pretty sure I didn't post about it because I was going to leave that up to Darwin. He's really busy too though so he never got around to it. Dar's dad has a really nice camera (we want one like his!) so these pictures look awesome!
Luckily both swarms stayed in the backyard and Dar's dad was around to see them. Dar had to rush over there after work both times in order to catch the swarms before they took off somewhere else. The first swarm too shelter in the top of the pear tree. Dar had to carefully climb up and gently saw off the branch they were on. I was at home with the girls so I missed it both times, but I'm glad to have the pictures!
Awesome pictures! I love it!!
My handsome beekeeper :)
Putting the bees in their new home
Dar invited our neighbor, Jeremy, to help him out. Jeremy is the one who introduced Dar to beekeeping a few years ago.
I guess we didn't get pictures of the second swarm. The original hive swarmed a second time later that same week and swarmed in the apple trees that time. Darwin said they weren't quite as easy to capture the second time because they were more spread out, but he got them! We really hope we get a better honey harvest next year. I'm glad Darwin has this fun little hobby :)
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