April: Harvesting Honey

Brian gave my parents and grandparents some great lessons on beekeeping. The final lesson came the day prior to their departure. He extracted some of the frames of honey he had saved and showed them how it is harvested. We just did three frames to give them a good lesson in how this is done.


First you scrape off the wax comb coverings to the honey.


Then you place the frames in the drum.


Then you take turns and make the drum spin....


And spin....
Then out comes the honey and some wax fragments. The honey drips onto a filter leaving just the honey in the bucket.

My family loved the show and tell.

That next week we finished harvesting the honey on the rest of our stored frames. We invited the Cannon family to come try it out.



The boys each scraped the honey comb wax coverings off the frames.


And Ethan just scraped...and scraped.

Then they spun the honey....

Then the filtered it.


We ended up with about 2 1/2 gallons of honey from our first years harvest. Not too bad!