Burntwood Bees Honey Harvest

Our friends, Mark and Christie,
invited us over this morning to watch them harvest a batch of honey...

We all had an incredible time!

The process was so interesting and we came home with a jar of fresh honey. YUM !!!

~  Collecting honey from the hive ~

~ Time with a buddy...even sweeter than honey ~



 ~ Harvesting gear ~



 ~ Scraping off the top layer of wax to get to the honey ~

 

~ First tastes ~

My son, eat honey, for it is good,

and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

~Proverbs 24:13

Gracious words are like honeycomb,

sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

~Proverbs 16:24



~ Spinning the honeycomb to release the honey for collection ~

 

~ Even Jason took a turn...with an epi-pen in his back pocket ~

~ Running the honey through a filter ~

 ~ Beautiful new baby Naomi...as sweet as honey ~

~ Honey straight from the comb ~



The law of the Lord is perfect...
sweeter also than honey

and the drippings of the honeycomb.

~ Psalm 19:7,10

~ The honey's color depends on the harvest and what the bees have been eating ~

(left-overs from last year's harvest)

I thought Jason might come home wanting to take on bee-keeping,

but instead he mentioned wanting chickens (Mark & Christie have those too).

But that's a whole extra blog post...stay tuned.

Thank you so much for letting us join in the harvest !!!

We learned tons and had so much fun!