First Honey Harvest
Anne reaped the sweet rewards of her beehive yesterday with her first honey harvest, extracting about two gallons. Her hive is more about supporting a bee colony for its pollinating benefits in the garden than in honey production, but the bees are workaholics and make way more honey than they need. For more details, read her post all about it.
OK, everybody, tall jars in the back. Everybody squeeze in close. Good. Now say “bees!”
Comments
I'm drooling here.
Posted by Mark on August 26, 2006 at 3:20 PM
That looks scrumptious. And a good deed, indeed. From what I read, hinyebee populations are dwindling. Yum.
Posted by Frank on August 26, 2006 at 8:25 PM
That looks sooooo good. I love honey.
(Great lighting too, btw! Your photo makes that honey look especially good.)
Posted by seadragon on August 27, 2006 at 7:35 PM
Mark, Can I put you down for a half-pint then? :-)
Frank, Yes, honeybees are not native to the US, and although there are wild colonies of bees, they have been in decline because of mite infestations.
Seadragon, Thanks! I tried backlighting through the honey, but didn’t like it as much.
Posted by Tony on August 28, 2006 at 10:45 PM
I'll trade you some jam for some honey. I have black plum, white plum, and a couple of other varieties that I made before breaking my wrist. (In other words, I have no peach jam and it's breaking my heart)
Posted by Melissa on August 31, 2006 at 10:14 AM