It was the right time to year for Neil to collect the honey from his strongest hive. He had put 3 supers on to give them plenty of room to store the honey. But when he looked they had only filled the frames in 2 supers. He donned his new all-in-one suit to collect the frames.
(That’s shadow on his face, he has not grown a moustache!!)
Yesterday we set to spinning the frames. First he uncapped them one by one.
Then two at a time he put them in the spinner. Centrifugal force pushes the honey out and it is collected in large jar below, first going through a sieve to collect any wax.
It’s wonderful to see the golden liquid collecting in the jar.
Then it has to be poured into jars and weighed to get exactly one pound in weight that is 454g. That was my job.
We got quite a haul. The jars are just waiting for their labels to be printed and then we will be ready to sell some. It will be £6.00 a jar. Don’t forget this is an expensive premium product, not mass produced, hence the cost. All proceeds go back into care of the bees.
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