It’s taken a few days to come down from our honey high. Honey extraction was a lot of fun. Following extraction and filtration comes bottling. Our mentor had suggested letting the honey sit for a day or two prior to bottling as it gives the air bubbles time to move to the top and prevents excessive bubbling in your jars. However, when you have a very excited little beekeeper, waiting became almost impossible. Our jars may have a few more bubbles in them than others but it was a small trade off for the sad face on a boy that didn’t want to wait.
He began bottling at 6:30am and we didn’t finish until about 9:00pm. It was a team effort and wouldn’t have taken so long if we’d had the proper bucket with a honey gate. Next year!
I think we filled about 52 honey jars of various sizes and a handful of other glass jars. We think we have enough honey to hold us until our next harvest!
The kids have been using it on bagels and toast. I prefer it on a biscuit!
I’m also looking forward to trying it in recipes! Right now we have so much honey I’m even using it as decoration!!!
Too much honey is a problem I’d love to continue having!!! We’ll have to take good care of these bees in hopes that they survive and thrive through their first winter here with us.
-Worker Bee 2021
Howards' Hives and Honey 