We have about decided that the flower flavor may be honeysuckle and gardenia. Bees are working on cleaning up equipment .
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Advice needed - I harvested my first @ 2 gallons of honey today
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is any of this for sale?View attachment 2671546 Updating older thread here. Just harvested 49lbs from 17 medium frames (2.5 supers) from 1 hive. Light colored and has a wild flower flavor. Other 4 hives are not ready to harvest yet.lftd&pwrstrok'n advised to get to a powered extractor and it was a blessing. Used an Ozark filet knife for the uncapping and it worked like a champ also for $15.
I like the darker also. It seems to be better in coffee and I use it in making my own BBQ Sauce too.
Heck yeah Bartow County is eat up with it.
Do you sell your honey?
My Grandad raised bees all his life. Refered to em as his babies. He was a pastor of several churches. Knew lots of folks. He had hives spread all over the county in Alabama overlooking cow pastures. Clover Honey. It was a little dark. Everybody in the family pedeled honey for him. There was always honey on the table..His babies got the best of him. Chasing a swarm of bees, he cut a sapling to knock the swarm of bees off a limb to fall into a super. Supported the sapling in his gut and tried to knock the swarm off the limb to fall into a super on the ground and hopefully capturing the queen. Ruptured his spleen and died. 90 yrs old
I told my buddy that it is amazing that hives do so well since they are all females.
Nice thing is that neither the wife or myself got stung today dealing with the girls. Looks like I might get another pound or so after dumping the capping strainer twice. Not a bad haul from one hive that still has probably another deep super full that we left for the bees. Might have to get labels and sell some next time.
Nice thing is that neither the wife or myself got stung today dealing with the girls. Looks like I might get another pound or so after dumping the capping strainer twice. Not a bad haul from one hive that still has probably another deep super full that we left for the bees. Might have to get labels and sell some next time.
Not selling any of this harvest. Don't have labels and wife promised most of it to people before we got the first bottle.
Better put a stop to this now
This hobby is too expensive to give away the harvest. $9 per 16 fluid ounces and you'll sell out faster than you can bottle it.
