A few years ago my sister started beekeeping. I can't get over how brave she is to do so. Despite my post about saving honeybees (check it out
here), I have always been terribly afraid of them.
Here is a peek at her honey harvesting process. There are beautiful jars of honey at the end of this...
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| Britt at work. Isn't she cute? I love the overalls. |
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| Scraping the panels of the hive into a bin to separate the honey. |
According to Britt, here's how it works: You make a spatula warm and scrape it off. Then the honey and wax are together. Wax is much lighter. I rigged up a way to separate. It's on the cheap.
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| The separation system. |
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| The honey. |
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| The wax. |
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| Voila! Lovelieness. |
