Episode 322 - Extracting Honey

This week, I harvested a little over four gallons of honey and realized we have not talked honeybees in a long time. Today I will walk you through my honey extraction process.

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• Cream of pickle soup recipe

What’s Up in the Garden

• Found poke in my bean patch so we had it with eggs
• Beans are coming on - seeding more in the garlic patch
• First ripe tomatoes!
• Cucumber plants are blooming
• Finishing out the beet crop for the year - may try again in the fall

Main topic of the Show: Extracting Honey

• 2 person process
• How much to extract
• Choosing frames/Spacing frames
• Queen Excluders are Awesome
• Storing in an ant free environment
• Tools I use for extraction - the roller to remove caps, the centrifuge
  • Video of the extraction from last year
• Other ways I have done this in the past
• Filtering and Jarring
• Storing
• Keeping the wax

It is not hard, but it is dangerous as I have illustrated this week with my bee sting incident. I could have avoided it by waiting a bit longer before processing but I was being efficient. How about you other beekeepers out there? What do you do to process your honey?

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