Extracting honey

Interested in beekeeping or just love eating honey? Check out this complete guide that will teach you to extract honey at home using a hand-crank extractor! #beekeeping #extracthoney #rawhoney #eatlocal

How to harvest small amounts of honey straight from the comb. This crushing and straining honey method requires no special tools or equipment.

Having bees has obvious rewards and some not so obvious. A clear golden jar of honey is an obvious reward, and the main reason most people get started beekeeping. Caring for a miraculously organized group of insects and taking pride in their work is unexpectedly moving.

Over the past two weekends we have extracted honey from the beehives. We extracted four supers of honey-yielding about 10 gallons of honey. After rendering the wax cappings we had 26 oz of beeswax. To render the beeswax I use a crock pot. Rendering the wax was is done by melt the cappings in a…

A small-scale beekeeper shares the full process of how to extract honey from the honeycomb. Includes a description of how to safely remove bees from the frames, uncap the honeycomb, spin honey, and bottle honey in jars.

Beehive that extract honey without disturbing the bees - WTF fun facts

To harvest honey, a honey extractor is not always the best option. Sometimes, a simpler method called Crush and Strain makes more sense for a harvest.

To protect her honey’s flavor, and to preserve its full nutritional benefits, Beverly Barker sells only raw honey and takes care not to damage it with heat.

Many new beekeepers get started with honey bees to access fresh honey! When it comes to beekeeping, harvesting honey is a sweet perk.