Tag: Honey

As summer draws to an end, we harvest our honey crop and some of the last vegetables from the garden. Before winter sets in is also a good time to check that all systems are functioning.

Inflation hits hardest in the grocery store, but you can offset that with a garden and livestock. It can also add some spending money to your pocket.

We finished extracting, filtering and bottling honey. Now we need to add labels and deliver it to our local retailers and customers.

Summer is busy on the homestead. We have to take advantage of the warm weather to grow and harvest what food we can in a limited time.

After a big honey harvest in late August, the bees surprised us and kept producing for another month. We got anther 50 pounds.

I have plenty of bees, but little honey. We are all waiting for something to bloom besides wildflowers and clover so the honey flow can start.

Storing food is critical to survival, but raising your own food can provide critical calories and help extend the life of your food storage.

Decapping, extracting, filtering and bottling are steps required to take honey from the comb to the bottle.

Its early in the second year of raising bees and the hives have already produced more honey than they did last year.

It's finally time to harvest some honey and see how our bees performed this year.