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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:05:49 AM
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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
Check out my shoppe at www.honeybeez.etsy.com
www.beehavenacres.blogspot.com , www.beehavenmaven.blogspot.com |
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
582 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:07:20 AM
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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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Edited by - ktknits on Jun 27 2007 07:21:15 AM |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:09:51 AM
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| 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! |
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 06:59:19 AM
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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
Check out my shoppe at www.honeybeez.etsy.com
www.beehavenacres.blogspot.com , www.beehavenmaven.blogspot.com |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 08:41:27 AM
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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! |
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UrbanFarmGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
57 Posts
Megan
Surprise
AZ
USA
57 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 09:34:28 AM
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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!)...
Married to my hubby & the Army, my Meezer, birdies and my sweet Duck Duck! |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 10:54:04 AM
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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
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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Bee Haven Maven
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
Beverly
Pennsylvania
USA
1862 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:36:35 PM
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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
Check out my shoppe at www.honeybeez.etsy.com
www.beehavenacres.blogspot.com , www.beehavenmaven.blogspot.com |
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
2436 Posts
Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
2436 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:54:18 PM
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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!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:57:45 PM
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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
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 12:58:04 PM
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| Bev, I like your plants in the window in the photo! They look very healthy. |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 1:04:21 PM
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Beautiful, Bev! And GOOD JOB BEES!!!!!!!!!
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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smoothiejuice
True Blue Farmgirl
6309 Posts
Jessica
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
6309 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 1:26:00 PM
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| 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 |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 3:53:18 PM
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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
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for tying, one hand to hold Nora! |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 7:12:51 PM
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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!
My Homesteading Journal http://toomyvara.livejournal.com
My craft journal http://bluewrenn.livejournal.com
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
1032 Posts
little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:19:31 PM
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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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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2007 : 9:24:56 PM
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How wonderful!! Congratulations!! I am so happy for you and do so hope your bees will have a long healthy life!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 05:26:44 AM
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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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Edited by - Hideaway Farmgirl on Jun 28 2007 05:27:11 AM |
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