Extracting Pearland Honey

 Extracted honey from about forty medium frame honeycombs this morning.  This amounted to about 12 gallons of honey which will be bottled and ready to sell by Tuesday afternoon. 

"Kind words are like honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body" - Proverbs 16:24

Prices for  this year  are:

 

                    1 lb plastic - $6.00

                    1 lb glass - $6.00

                    2 lb glass - $11.00

                    3 lb glass(Quart) - $16.00

                    Gallon Glass - $50.00 

Haley is a natural with the hot uncapping knife 

Violet opens the extractor (centrifuge) gate for the honey to flow into the strainer.

When honey is ripe for storage and thus ready to be extracted... the bees seal the honeycomb with wax cappings which have to be removed so the honey can flow from the comb in the centrifuge.

With Luca looking on, Miles tries the uncapping knife.

Gabriel and Luca helped load the honeycombs into the centrifuge.