We medicated last fall and the honey in the hive still has some of the medication in it which isn’t safe for humans, so we needed to extract the honey and put it aside so we know everything we harvest from now on will be safe to eat.

So Jenn and I bought a new beekeeping toy, a 2 frame honey extractor! This saves a TON of time harvesting honey, and allows us to keep the comb (mostly) intact so the bees can repair it and start storing honey/ brood in it almost immediately.

So after several hours of harvesting, cleaning, and harvesting again we finally extracted one super of honey. And unfortunately because of the medication we didn’t get to eat any of it… We will store the honey we pulled out today and after we extract the summer harvest we will feed this medicated honey back to the bees to put into their winter stores.





After pulling the honey we put the harvested frames back on the hive for the bees to clean up and start storing honey in. We also decided to do a full hive inspection and check on Queen G (She’s doing great!) and we put in a queen excluder to keep her from laying eggs in the upper supers. After closing up the hive the bees bearded on the front of the hive for a few minutes before finding their way back inside.



Jenn was stung three more times.

The Bee String Count: