Honey Harvest

During the past few days, we learned a lot about bees and honey.

Why Learn About Honey?

One of RJ's classmates was staying in a house that had a beehive. The bee-man inspected the hive and said that the queen was gone and there was 50 lbs of honey left in the hive. So, it was time to harvest.

Sara was in the right place at the right time and got 5 trays of honeycomb.

The Process

After scraping off the bees wax and setting up cookie cooling racks, we had a full night of excitement watching honey drip on a cookie sheet.

The honey had some impurities in it, so the next step involved pouring the honey through a strainer. This was a process that happened overnight.

Step 2: pour honey into strainer

The next day, Sara poured the honey into storage jars.

Step 3: pour into containers

After all was said and done, we got 2 big jars and 1 small jar of honey.

Next Steps

For our bedtime story, we read the Berenstain Bears "The Big Honey Hunt." After researching the costs, hassles, potential problems, and complexities of housing bees, we came to the same conclusion has Papa ... the best type of honey comes from a store.