How sweet it is!

We got a call over the weekend from James' parents. They had one of our bee expert friends come out and take a look at the hives, and she suggested we go ahead and pull some frames for extracting. Luckily, this lady has her own extractor and she gladly took them to her bee house and taught them how to work it.

Now, it's a little early to be harvesting, but the tools were there and none of us have ever used an extractor so it was great that they had the chance to learn before we get elbow deep in 100 pounds of honey.

Keep in mind... we just put the supers on our hives a few short weeks ago...

So they took the super over to her house, extracted some honey, and now what? I need to order some jars! They pulled over NINE POUNDS of honey from one super on one hive!

Come late August, when the honey is all ready to be gathered, we are expecting some major flows. I'll keep you posted!

Little bees climbing over a frame

Let me know if you would like a sample!