Removing Honey (090)

Honey Bee Obscura Podcast · Sep 8, 2022 · 18m

Harvesting your honey crop isn't about keeping bees, in fact, it is hard work. It's when you start questioning your spring decision to expand your number of colonies. On the other hand, it's a good measure of how well you kept bees during the season. And there are a lot of ways to convince the bees they should share what they have made this season, mostly due to your stewardship.

Removing well capped, honey filled frames can be complicated but easy, or uncomplicated and a lot of work. The uncomplicated techniques only require a bee brush, hive tool and a container that you can store your now…