Honey Honey Honey

Thought you'd enjoy some photos of our recent honey harvest. We've had a fabulous amount of honey. There was a full super of honey off each of our three hives which is amazing. Our bees are absolutely booming. Its lovely to be able to report that, when the media is so full of woe and gloom about bees.

Long-term and in the wider sense bees are in trouble but in our little corner of the world our bees are abundant and very happy.

A lovely full comb of honey to start. All the photos were taken on the phone so excuse the quality

This next one was taken looking down to the bottom of the extractor equipment and you can see the honey collecting.

And finally turning the tap at the bottom of the extractor tank to let the honey flow

We think we have around 50lb of honey, which is amazing and more than we've ever harvested before so well done bees!

We can't bottle it yet as its so full of Oil Seed Rape honey that it will set solid - such is the nature of Oil Seed Rape. We have to add some runny honey and whip them together to achieve a soft set honey rather than something that is spoon-bendingly hard. But its wonderful to have a large tank of fragrant pale honey in our kitchen.