This is from one hive
This is from one hive
3 gallons from one hive. My second hive swarmed, so not enough honey to harvest yet. The third hive I'm harvesting this week for honeycomb.
Was that one single harvest, or one hive harvested throughout one season?
One single harvest.
I'm so hurt from the internet, honey was not the first thing my mind went to when I saw the photograph.
Those bees could stand to drink a lot more water.
Touch grass more often.
Why is some light but some darker?
That's where my question comes from, some flowers (wildflowers, fir trees...) make way darker honey than typical summer flowers for example. Rapeseed flowers produce almost white, very solid honey.
The honey gets stored by the bees over months. Different pollen sources are available at different times, so it looks different in different places in the hive. I use a type of frame that let's me harvest each frame individually, so the different colors don't get all blended together.
Thank you!
Nice of the bees to bottle it for you