Spring Honey at Secure Acres Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2024
- We had a colony leave one of our Layens hives over the winter. They left us a few frames of Honey so we figured we would make the best of it!
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That press works pretty good. I put my extracting tank and basket out for the bees to clean as well. That makes clean up easy.
Indeed, drawn comb is a valuable resource for the bees, saving them the time and energy as opposed to building out new comb. But, as long as there is a little comb and wax at the top of the frame, the bees will quickly start working the frame again. An inexpensive stainless wine/honey press can be found online for around $120. Cheaper than a quality extractor. There will often be wonky honeycomb that will not extract well, and the honey press is the way to go in that case. Remember that if the honey was put up by the bees in the fall, it could be goldenrod and aster sourced and could crystalize quickly, which is no big deal unless you want to pour it. One other thing, you can get through a beer brewing supply, different hop bags, and if you get one that fits in you press, you trap the cappings and other wax, but allowing the honey and pollen to flow through. Thanks for the video, Happy Easter, Brice
Happy Easter to you too Brice!
You're right about the comb, Bees can restore it no problem. I'll have to check out those hop bags for our press. Thanks for the advice!
Just drippin!!! Survival honey. I had to pause the video and run to the cupboard and have a spoonful. Damn that's good!! 🐝🐝
Liquid Gold!
That's cool. I didn't know there was such a thing. Thanks for sharing!
The honey press rocks! Give it a try!
Thanks for the video, I haven't seen the press before
Glad you liked it!
HONEY
Gotta say I'm im𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙. 😆
Very punctual of you! 😆
Very impressive press. Well done sir!
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@@SecureAcresNaturalBees Thank you. I have consumed quite a bit of your honey. It is delicious. Keep up the great work!
That’s a big hive looks like a small house great work 👍
Thanks!
Honey is money
I love that press from Leo. I think I watched one of your videos years ago and then bought it?
Yes I remember that! It's a great press, so easy to clean.
Press lol I just crush and strain. A press is not needed. I highly recommend top bar hives to you. They are right up your alley. I overwinter in them naturally without treatment or sugar feeding. (NE USA)
We enjoy the Press even if it's not the most efficient. Never used a Top bar hive. I'm familiar with them in that they're horizontal hives like the Layens but maybe one day Ill try them out. Nice to hear you're doing it treatment free with no sugar feed!
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees Layens hive frames have the "top bar" built in by design.
Quick question. Do you screen out the sediment and wax?
We don't filter it much more than you see here, the comb and debris will float to the top of the honey over a day and we can use a spoon to get it out.
@@SecureAcresNaturalBees Sounds good, thanks
All talks of preserving the dark combs are pointless. You want to renew the dark combs, not preserve them.
This is exactly what is going on here.
People have no idea what they are saying.
Just press on.
That's how we look at it, comb comes and goes. I'm sure the old colony won't be too mad at us!