Our First Honey Harvest!

On Labor Day we harvested our honey for the first time. It was exciting and we had no idea what to expect. Paige, Brent and Leslie came over  to help. Miranda also had some friends over that were intereted in seeing the process. I worried that it would take a long time and we would be up half the night doing honey and I would have to get up and go to school the next day. That is not the case. Eric started getting into the hives around 10 am and we were done with the extracting and filtering by 3 pm. And that was with a lunch break.

Here are a few pictures that we took to document the day.  

The Bee Whisperers - Getting ready for the harvest.

Eric, Brent and Frankie

Eric very carefully brushing the bees off of the frame.

Paige enjoying some honeycomb. This was before we had to go inside because of angy bees.

                                                            



 

Some capped honey about to go under the heated knife.

Leslie really liked to dip her finger in the honey. She thought it was tastey!



Honey pouring out of the extractor and into the first filter.



The final filtering of the honey.

I am not sure if my kitchen floor will ever be the same.
We mopped it twice the day we harvested and I still find sticky spots.

We are enjoying the honey and have sold much of it.