As I’ve made perfectly clear by now, last weekend was jam packed with bee-related stuff.
Saturday we had an all-day bee class, Sunday we extracted our first ever batch of honey, and Monday I went up to Huntsville to help a family friend winterize his colonies and extract the fall flow honey. Quite a flurry of bee activity all at once.
Here are some highlights from the day of the bee class.
One section was learning about how to make creamed honey, another was about a technique for increasing honey output and swarm prevention called checker-boarding (taught by the guy who developed it!), another was intermediate hive inspection, and I ended the day with learning about queen rearing.
David Ellis teaching us about creamed honey
Walter Wright of Walt’s Bee Biz (brilliant name)
POPTPOP of Sallie Lee taking a photo of Hugh Feagle teaching the hive inspection class
I just don’t understand people who are able to do this stuff without wearing gloves
The class in rapt attention
Bees are just so cool looking
