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Category Archives: Honey
Extraction Flash Mob
2015 is turning out to be a memorable beekeeping year. There’s been late night mishaps with cops and several angry dog incidents, but I must remember it’s not over yet! I have always invited some close friends to honey extraction ever … Continue reading
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Tagged feral bees, honey, honey extraction, Indiana Beekeeping
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Blackberry Mead
It is time to talk about another use for honey. In this case it’s a use for uncured nectar that would be unstable on a shelf. As many already know if honey isn’t cured to proper moisture content it will … Continue reading
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Tagged honey, Indiana Beekeeping, Mead, treatment free beekeeping
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From Bees to Beets
Last weekend Holly and I canned some beets. ”What the heck does this have to do with bees?!?” Well first off I LOVE PICKLED BEETS! It has everything to do with bees, because several years ago my wife converted from … Continue reading
Honey and Walnuts
It hit me the other day, I’ve never talked about things I do with honey….. I gave a little bee talk a couple weeks ago to the Bath, Indiana Gardener’s Club. I got to talking about one of the ways … Continue reading
Friday night fun
Things have been busy here as per normal. We are shifting gears from our end of summer routines to the preparation for winter. As stated previously we are preparing for deer season. It is a family affair that’s more involved … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, beekeeping, crystal, honey, Indiana Beekeeping
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Honey Pricing
After ordering labels next came the second most difficult task of pricing the honey. If you didn’t know previously I live in Eastern Central Indiana, about an hour east of Indianapolis and an hour north of Cincinnati. The closest large-ish … Continue reading
Labeling Honey
At long last the honey labels came in. In the past the small amounts of honey produced by the bees had just been given away and sold “unlabelled” to friends who didn’t care, but this years crop was too large … Continue reading
Bottling Honey
Beekeeping has made me over use the phrase, “I am done, but not completely”. I say it often since I caught this buzz. This years extraction is over, but I am still not done completely. I have no buyers for … Continue reading
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Tagged bee, beekeeping, bottling honey, honey, honey gate, Indiana, Jason Bruns
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Escape boards revisited and video editing
Several days ago I discussed the use of Escape Boards for clearing bees from honey supers. At the time there were several unedited video files on the computer that I just didn’t have time to fool with. Things haven’t slowed … Continue reading
Basic extracting
As I said in yesterday’s post I was able to get the supers pulled that I planned on extracting this fall. I knew going into this extraction that I did not have enough buckets to hold all of the honey … Continue reading