First honey

Tamara helped me work the bees today. We inspected, and they seem to thriving. We took out a frame of honey because they have lots of honey already and the wood on the frame was starting to break from age. We harvested our first ever honey from the frame.

Above is the picture of the super while the old frame is out, before we put the new one in. The bees were very gently and kind to us. Below is Tam holding up the old frame full of honey.

A closeup of the capped (finished and sealed with wax) honey with some dripping. The wax is dark because it's so old. The honey is not dark.

Uncapping the honey and setting it to drain in a colander. After this, we strained it through cheesecloth.

The first jar of Old Shaw Farm honey.

We're still straining the rest. I think we'll get at least another jar that size, maybe two, from just that one frame. Tamara is a soapmaker who is going to use the wax to make soap.