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Yesterday I harvested honey from four of our five hives. The process of harvesting honey is pretty straightforward, actually. Since we don't use any chemicals in our hives, we spray our fume board with essential oils that bees don't like, which drives them to the bottom of the hives. This allows us to remove the honey supers without disturbing the bees too much. After the supers are removed, we remove each frame, cut the cappings off and place the frames in the extractor. We have a totally non-fancy, hand crank, four frame extractor that we bought used a few years ago. After the honey is spun out of the frames, we strain it into 5 gallon buckets. We harvested 70 lbs from the hives. Add that to the 90 lbs we harvested earlier this year, and I think that we did pretty well this season.

Yarn along-- FINALLY!

I've been following Jinny from Simple Things for a while, but I'm just getting the time to participate in the Yarn Along. Yah! Well, gotta go-- it's time to feed the 7 week old!