Honey Harvest Day 2 ...

We are in our second day of 2012 Honey harvest ... It could be a three person operation with one person taking care of the extractor and moving honey/supers while the other two decap the frames.  But, we are doing it with two ... Sue Neal is doing most of the decapping while I decap, move supers/frames/honey and load/unload the extractor.  Important items for converting the garage into a honey room ... tight encloser, fans, vacuum cleaner, lots of newspaper (put down at least three times a day to cover honey drops) and a large volume of drinking water ...

Our extractor will handle nine medium frames if you want to turn three frames half way through the extraction cycle ... we are running six frames at a time without flipping any frames.  We took off about 200 pounds yesterday and another 200 today.  One more day to get the best hives out of the way and then we will continue late next week to finish.

I have been putting our wet supers outside for the bees to clean up the excess honey.  Hope it does not lead to a robbing spree.  The wet supers are a couple hundred yards from the closest hives so I am hoping it will be okay.

In about 30 minutes after putting them out in the driveway, there are thousands of bees there to take up the free meal.

Congrats to KP for making the NFCA South Central USA First team ... All Americans will be announce next Tuesday ... she will have a chance.  KP was the only Kentucky player named to the South Central USA Teams.

https://nfca.org/index.php/awards/louisville-sluggernfca-all-americans/4817-2012-high-school-all-region