Sunday 25th August 2013 ~ Honey Harvest

Honey Harvest ~ The jarring up

 

The scrapings from the spinner barrel on home-made  wholemeal bread

 Percy fitted a tap to a 5 litre bucket for easier bottling

The first jar

 Using the grand-children's cooking step

Final drips

Looking jars from above; it looks like capped honeycomb!!

 

 Our 11lbs of Honey :-)

 Lovely colour

We are doing our bit!!!

~ Just a spare jar  really ~

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And finally today......

We gave the bees back their cappings tonight which we hope they will pick over and leave us cleaner wax to melt down.

They weren't very happy when we took their lid off but maybe they thought we were robbers; can't think why!!!