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How and when to reap your first batch of uncooked honey and honeycomb from a yard beehive.
I sought after to percentage with you an image in conjunction with the main points of my first uncooked honey harvest as a amateur yard beekeeper.
Then honey after all incorporated the scrumptious honeycomb!
Timing
Harvesting honey from my very own yard hive used to be no longer an in a single day luck in anyway.
My first hive used to be established in March 2023, so it took over a 12 months for the colony to develop to the purpose the place extracting some honey may just also be thought to be.
In different phrases, it’s unwise to take away honey from a colony this is newly established, small, suffering, or differently no longer thriving and bursting on the seams with sufficient honey, nectar, and pollen to beef up itself.
The honey with honeycomb within the picture above got here from one body that met the standards for availability for the beekeeper to take.
Harvest Honey
The method of harvesting the honey used to be slightly simple.
I merely dismissed the few bees that have been at the honey body and taken it into the kitchen.
Then, I moderately scraped the honey with intact honeycomb into a big bowl as you’ll be able to see above.
The honey with the brush can be saved in a tumbler bowl with a safe lid within the pantry.
After the honey used to be got rid of from the body, I positioned it at the patio propped up at the facet of a chair so all sides have been simply available.
The patio isn’t a ways from the hive, so the bees simply came upon it and temporarily started the clean-up of any sticky remnants.
As soon as wiped clean via the bees (which can best take an afternoon!), the body will return into the hive to be refilled with any other batch of honey and honeycomb.
I most popular to have the bees clear the body clear of the hive versus striking it right away again into the hive (the bees will clear it anyplace you set it!) as that might chance one of the crucial honey dripping all the way down to the ground of the hove and attracting wax moths…a dreaded infestation.
Whilst there are different tactics for harvesting honey that paintings smartly too, it is a quite simple and simple method for a small harvest.
Expectantly, that is the primary of many extra to come back!
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