The honey harvest is in!

When you see that little bottle of honey you are about to purchase, you have no idea the process that it goes through to get it into that bottle! After a hot and grooling summer in the bee suit with the bees working themselves to death, ,making sure they are okay, fed and healthy, the next step is harvesting. We only have a two frame extractor that hand cranks. It can take some time to spin down numerous frames. Lets not even mention the amount that gets all over the kitchen! There is nothing like walking through your kitchen and your slipper staying where it is as you walk out of it~!

Our bees gifted us with countless frames that look like this! Capped and full of honey, some of them so heavy it was hard to lift them!

First things first is de-capping the waxy coating the bees put over the honey when it's just right and ready! This is a hot knife that melts it away quickly and allows you to cut through the wax. Known as a de-capping knife.

The extractor has a trap door at the bottom that allows you to elevate it and drip into a strainer startled over a bottling bucket that we place below. This strainer has two levels of straining in it. It strains just the wax but does allow some beneficial pollen to pass through making the honey taste amazing and also allowing all the beneficial good stuff in the honey to stay.

Once it's strained into the bottling bucket, the bottling begins! Then the labels are applied and we now have honey available! One pound jars are $10, 1/2 pound jars are $5 and we will also have the plastic bear jars available for $5.00 as well! Now to wash the kitchen floor!!!