Why is it that honey tastes best when consumed from the plastic carcass of a woodland creature?
As you might know, I talked my wife into letting me get a beehive this year. We knew that it is very unlikely to get to harvest honey in your first year, so we decided rather than buying a small package of bees (the norm) we would invest a little extra in an established half-colony of bees, hoping that we would be able to harvest a decent amount of honey. Unfortunately, they were delivered about a month later than promised so our hive missed the main spring nectar flow. I was hopeful that they would catch up in late summer, but alas, I was only able to harvest about 1/10th of what I was hoping.
Hopefully they will survive the winter and then hopefully have a major head start next spring.
If you're getting the trend, there's a lot of hoping involved in beekeeping.
But hey, I was able to get SOME free honey, unless of course the bees die over winter, in which case it will be some very expensive honey.
So this is it, one frame out of the 10 or so they filled with honey. This is all I was comfortable in thieving. Hopefully, if I feed them a bunch of sugar syrup they'll be able to replace this and make it to spring. Hey, there's that word again.
I don't have a honey extractor and wasn't going through the trouble of reserving one through a beekeeping club for one frame, so I did it the old fashioned way. Little man was super into the process.
Cut, crush, strain, hang, bottle.
Oh and tasting.
Lots of tasting
The final result, right around 3 lbs of really tasty honey. Which of course tastes best from the bear bottle.
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