We got the bees just about 2 years ago and we just harvested our first honey!
We got off to a bad start when the swarms we bought weren’t as strong as they should have been. Bad luck with the guy we chose to buy from. Annoying!
There has also been a steep learning curve and we’ve only learnt a fraction of what we need so far! Thank goodness for the internet!
The honey spinner is FANTASTIC! It was really easy to extract the honey without damaging the wax, which is great because it saves the bees the effort of making more wax next time (wax takes a lot of resources to make that could go in to making honey when they don’t need to make more...)
It wasn’t all capped, but we decided to go for it anyway as we need to now move on to some swarm control measures before the main nectar flow, and we didn’t want to miss our first chance of honey!
Beautiful!
I made crumpets in celebration!
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