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How and when to reap your first batch of raw honey and honeycomb from a yard beehive.
I wanted to share with you a picture along with the small print of my first raw honey harvest as a novice yard beekeeper.
The honey in any case included the delicious honeycomb, a healthful pure chewing gum.
Timing
Harvesting honey from my very personal yard hive was not an in a single day success by any means.
My first colony was established in March 2023, so it took over a yr for the hive to develop to the aim the place extracting some honey would possibly even be thought-about.
In numerous phrases, it is unwise to remove honey from a colony that is newly established, small, struggling, or in some other case not thriving and bursting on the seams with enough honey, nectar, and pollen to assist itself.
The honey with honeycomb inside the {photograph} above bought right here from one physique that met the elements for availability for the beekeeper to take.
How one can Harvest Honey
The strategy of harvesting the honey was pretty simple.
I merely dismissed the few bees which have been on the honey physique and launched it into the kitchen.
Then, I fastidiously scraped the honey with intact honeycomb into a giant bowl as you probably can see above.
The honey with the comb shall be saved in a glass bowl with a protected lid inside the pantry.
After the honey was away from the physique, I positioned it on the patio propped up on the side of a chair so both sides have been merely accessible.
The patio should not be faraway from the hive, so the bees merely discovered it and shortly began the clean-up of any sticky remnants.
As quickly as cleaned by the bees (which is ready to solely take a day!), the physique could also be put once more inside the hive.
I preferred to have the bees clear the physique away from the hive versus inserting it immediately once more in (the bees will clear it wherever you set it!).
The reason is {{that a}} physique with some unfastened honey would hazard some dripping proper all the way down to the underside of the hive and attracting wax moths…a dreaded infestation that I’ve had points with this season.
Whereas there are completely different methods for harvesting honey that work successfully too, it’s a fairly easy and straightforward methodology for a small harvest.
Hopefully, that’s the major of many further to come back again!
Research Further About Yard Beekeeping
If it’s essential to study further about my adventures as a yard beekeeper, the rising guidelines of articles is beneath the yard beekeeping class.
