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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:05:49 AM
After 2 years, beekeeping has finally paid off. We got our first honey harvest last week. Our hives produced 80 pounds of this wonderful golden nectar. My brother-in-law Mike spent hours spinning down the comb and then filtering the honey. I am so excited and the honey tastes yummy!! Good job Bee Haven Bees!!!!
From this:
To this!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 05:26:44 AM
A wonderful accomplishment, Bev! I can only imagine the feeling of accomplishment and relief and pride in your honey bees this year! And, the photo you posted just makes my mouth water! My dad's family raised honey bees in Toronto, Ontario during the Depression and I love hearing hist stories about the bees, the honey and the customers. His father was able to feed 5 kids plus extended family members quite well, on produce and meat that they traded for jars of their honey. Keep us posted on your business and when you will have enough extra honey to sell!
Jo
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| Buttercup |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:24:56 PM
How wonderful!! Congratulations!! I am so happy for you and do so hope your bees will have a long healthy life!
Hugz!
Talitha
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| Lavendar fields dreamer |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:19:31 PM
ok so we have eaten the honey with the honey comb still in it and its wonderful!! the kids even like it, i think that we actually prefer it that way
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 7:12:51 PM
Congrats to the Bee Haven Bees! Your honey looks great!
We have bees too and while one hive may have lost its queen, the bees just moved next door and now the second hive is making honey faster than we can add supers. We're trying to find an extractor so we can harvest our honey as well... Must have been the never-ending crop of wildflowers this year!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 3:53:18 PM
I like to make furniture polish (for oil rub finish wood or unfinished wood) out of beeswax and I also like to make lotion out of it as well. You can even use beeswax to make soap! It is such a great substance! I love it!
Alee
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| smoothiejuice |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 1:26:00 PM
Yum!!! It looks so good I can almost taste it!!! I just love those tiny little bees!! Great work everyone and everybee at the Bee Haven!! Jess |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 1:04:21 PM
Beautiful, Bev! And GOOD JOB BEES!!!!!!!!!
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:58:04 PM
Bev, I like your plants in the window in the photo! They look very healthy. |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:57:45 PM
The honey looks yummy, and I thought I heard and read that its a bad year for the little critters, not many around, glad to see they made a comeback.
I was looking at your store site and ordered an apron, it was just too cute to leave at your house, it needs to come to mine.
NANCY JO
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| Kathie |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:54:18 PM
Oh Bev!! This is great isn't it???
Just beautiful!!
i am so happy for you!!
& it does look so clear & pretty too!!
yippee!! Honey!!! Says Pooh Bear!
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:36:35 PM
We are going to be able to harvest again in September. The hope is to eventually be able to sell. I suspect for now we will gift it and use it ourselves. Mike is in the process of trying to melt down the wax and find a purpose for that also.....He talked of candles....who knows. He is our beekeeper....and has many funny stories about these bees....I only wish I had gotten pictures when he was stung on the forehead...looked like something from Star Wars.....then as gravity had it's effect, he looked something more like a Shar Pei (one of those fat, wrinkly Chinese dogs).
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 10:57:16 AM
oh yay! how wonderful!
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 10:54:04 AM
Just seeing that photo makes me want to go make cornbread so I will have something to slather honey on! Of course I bet my honey from the store doesn't taste as good as your fresh stuff does!
Alee
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| UrbanFarmGirl |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 09:34:28 AM
Will you be selling once your bees start to produce more? I don't know how often you can "harvest" ( I am not a beekeeper!)...
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 08:41:27 AM
Wow! I love the color of your honey! What are you going to do with the beeswax?
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 07:25:39 AM
BGeautiful! What joy to have the final product. Great colot. MB
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:59:19 AM
We are very lucky right now.....last year we lost our bees. These are new hives for us that came from a retiring beekeeper at the end of the winter. They have had the spring and early summer to polinate our gardens, blueberries, orchard, etc. so they seem very healthy! We will say our prayers that they stay so.
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:09:51 AM
It looks delicious, and what a pretty color! How are the bees doing...with the disappearance of bees lately, I just wondered. Anyway, they're doing a good job! |
| ktknits |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:07:20 AM
CONGRATULATIONS!! With so many bee keepers losing their hives, it's great to hear a success story! Long live your bees!
And, I just bought an apron, I just bought an apron. It's the cherry one on Bev's etsy site--and there's a picture of it on page 12 of the Apron Sew Along thread here. I just love it! 
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