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| Set up in the garage |
As fall comes, harvesting our honey was our ritual the weekend of September 6,7,8 2012. Friday 6, we set up our extraction station in the garage.... until we can have a proper honey house! One day:)
Saturday 7th. We headed to Shakopee with our friend Liz. Peter, the farm owner got his ATV ready for us. Ben was happy and had fun driving all the way to our 2 hives at the end of the field. We had to clear the squashes, and vines before driving on the made up path.
Once at the hives we had to take each frames from each box (super) and brush gently the bees off. The honeybees were good but a bit sneaky...finding their way back to the cleaned frames from time to time.
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| Happy beekeeper! |
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| Brushing the frames |
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| Carrying the "bee" free honey supers |
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| Beautiful frame of capped honey |
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| Honey bee drinking the nectar on a frame |
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Our ride is almost ready to go!
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While Ben and I were brushing, Liz was ready with a towel to cover the frames so the bees would not settle again on them. We had to work fast but with grace and slow movements. No need to upset the honeybees unnecessarily! In all it went very well, we got only a handful of bees in the car while driving home. And no we did not wear our veils all the way home... that would have been suspicious! Thanks to Liz who took all of the pictures to document this blog post. Next harvesting day.
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