Thursday, September 22, 2011

Liquid Gold

Honey Harvest 2011

I've been a hobby beekeeper for about two years now. But this is my first year for harvesting honey. The first year you leave all the honey for your bees so they can make it through the cold winter months ahead. By the second year hopefully your bees have been busy little things, so there will be enough honey for you both.
My girls (bees) did good this year.

Last weekend we harvested this years honey...
Honey Harvest 2011

Honey supers full of honey ready to be uncapped...

Honey Harvest 2011

Uncapping the comb with the heat knife, so the honey will flow when placed in the spinner.

Honey Harvest 2011

Placing the frames in the extractor and start spinning...

Honey Harvest 2011

And spinning...

Honey Harvest 2011

and spinning some more.

Honey Harvest 2011

Look at all that pretty golden goodness.

Now I'm looking forward to designing some fun labels for the bottles!
xo