Tag: Honey

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.

Adding a good-size dog to our prepper property has been a goal of mine since Day One.

I didn't expect to harvest any honey this year, our first with the hives, but just 60 days later, we pulled our first frame of honey from one of the hives.