[afraidfortherepublic]

You may find this thread interesting. You could post some of your pictures and educate the masses.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I harvested 8 gallons of honey yesterday, and was absolutely ill by the time I got finished ... it is so delicious to gobble up pieces of comb and spit out the little ball of wax when you're done. Too much of the good stuff, and your belly will hurt though.

Probably have another 12-15 gallons yet to harvest, and I will try to remember to take some pictures while we are de-capping the comb and putting the frames in the extractor to spin the honey out.

I still find it fascinating, but it is hard work too. Those boxes full of honey are really heavy!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I totally forgot to mention that my honey is filtered with a rather large nylon mesh screen, one well large enough that all of the pollen and good things get through, but pieces of wax comb and bees that got caught in the flow are taken out.

The clearer, "pretty" honey that looks so good in the jar has all of the pollen strained out.

The honey harvested yesterday tasted of the flowers that the bees had been working. One funny thing is that the fall honey in our area is tastier than the spring, mostly due to the goldenrod and ragweed. While people love to label honey with such names as clover and wildflower, you won't find any jars of labeled "ragweed honey" on the shelves of the health store.