Body Count - quite a few squished bees and three stings (none on me!)
In other news, behold the FIRST HONEY HARVEST. While performing open heart surgery in the hive looking for Mrs Thatcher I could not resist pinching one frame of honey.
Here is a picture of the capped honey. Because I didn't use foundation, all the wax is freshly made and chemical free - so it is immanently suitable for eating. The little dark cells have pollen in them.
I cut of some strips of honey comb and popped them in jars. I know Pa Duck Herder is especially fond of honey comb.
The rest I mashed up into a strainer so the honey could separate from the comb.
And here is my high tech honey harvester - a strainer held over a bowl in a saucepan.
Golly Gosh. Yum Yum.
4 comments:
That is so cool...makes me wanna have a bee hive too!
yum!! Do you feel the honey taste 'mild'? Ours tasted so mild.
I want some of those combs...I wish you were closer : )
YUM! That honey looks delicious!
Hello lovely bloggy friends. Diane it is just amazing! They are so beautiful and if I can learn how to play bees I am double sure you could too. I feel so bad about killing off Mrs Thatcher though. Eventhough they were so very strong and productive - she was getting very violent and naughty! And Mr Weekend Farmer and Sherdie - the honey is LOVELY. It is mainly apple box (a type of eucalypt Mr Farmer) with some black locust as well - which I think is a common honey in the US? These are the trees that have been flowering over the past month and which the bees have been working really hard.
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