Saturday, August 26, 2006

Honey Harvest

One super-frame filled with capped honey.















The uncapping process
















The extraction process
















Some of the first honey oozing from the extractor

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Filling the first honey-bear.














One pound of our first honey crop.




















A sample of the 27 lbs of honey we harvested today. We left one on the hive that was not yet capped off, so we'll check on it in a couple of weeks.



2 comments:

Chris said...

You have a great site! Colorado is such a beautiful area. Great pics! How did you convince the wife to extract in HER kitchen?

Chris

http://www.urbanbees.blogspot.com/

2-Wheeler said...

Thanks Chris,
It's not really the kitchen, it's the mud-room. But we did cover the floor and counter-tops with plastic before we started.