While this isn’t the usual time of the year to extract honey, I had one hive freeze a few weeks ago and I was able to salvage the honey super. After the super thawed for about a week, the kids and I broke out the extractor this evening in order to harvest the honey.
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Luke with hot knife and Sophie with pick uncap the honey |
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Wax caps go into a filtered bucket for melting later |
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Big brother helps ponytail up Sophie’s sticky hair |
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Sophie and Noah |
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Uncapping the last frame |
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Luke loads the final frame into the extractor to begin the spin! |
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Impressed Sophie monitors the process after a post-extraction shower |
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Luke ramps up the speed! |
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