Showing posts with label beekeeping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beekeeping. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2012

Harvesting Honey Part 2

 The harvesting process went very well today. As you can see from the photo, the frames are fully drawn out with wax and honey.  




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Here Daniel took the heated knife and removed the caps from each of the frames


Here Daniel is placing the open frames in the extractor.


This extractor holds two frames.

Daniel is spinning the honey out of the frames and it will drain to the bottom of the extractor.

Each frame needed to be flipped to get the honey from both sides.


Here is the honey from the first two frames!! We were all so excited.



This is the wax that was melted to open up the frames.


This is what I will be doing for most of the day, waiting for the honey to drip from the wax so we can clean the wax to make candles.  :) 
We are so thankful to God for the provision of honey this year. We have looked forward to this for many years.          

~ Kim

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

We have bees!





Daniel received a call about two swarms in Mercer county, so he and Joshua went to pick them up today. Daniel really enjoys beekeeping and has learned a lot in the past few years. Hopefully we'll have our own honey in a few years.


~Kim