Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Honey Bee


The hubby bought two more hives for bees.  We now have four hives.  The original hive was making way too many queen bees.  The hubby found it before the bees got ready to swarm.  He had to move one of the queens into another hive and then had to get rid of the other queens before they hatched.  If a hive has more than one queen the bees will swarm and that is why we had to get the extra queens out of the hive.  The hubby has been doing pretty darn good with honey.  We don't do anything with the honey except to extract it from the comb and put into jars.  I know some people have expensive and special equipment to do their honey but we don't have the time or the money to get (special clean honey).  It is pretty raw, and most people love it!  We give it to family and friends!  It goes pretty darn fast, we are actually on our last quart that we have been trying to hold onto for as long as we can.

Hope everyone is having a great week.

6 comments:

threecollie said...

Your honey is as good as the best honey I have ever tasted. I love to hear Matt talk about handling the bees, although I definitely would rather hear about it than participate. lol

lisa said...

threecollie-I like the honey, but I sure don't participate either!

5 Starr's Farm said...

Hi Lisa.... our bee man give us raw honey every year from our orange blossom, really good. Well you've been a busy Gal, traveling around the county side. Congratulations on the graduations of your son and daughter. It's always wonderful, when our kids have a big accomplishment.

Far Side of Fifty said...

I know so people who make a real good living off of honey, they belong to a coop and sell everything they have..they have extraction equipment and bottle their honey. People that are good with Bees can do ok..I could never do it...too allergic:)

Crystal said...

So I just got one question. How can you tell the difference between a regular bee and a queen bee, this has always confused me. Also how does a new queen get born, I am so confused to this.

Shirley said...

The place I live used to be a honey farm, there were 2 swarms here the first year we lived here, which a local honey guy came and collected. I'd never seen a swarm before- it was quite interesting.