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[Updated 7/21/2008 21:58 -- not sure the work I did relieved any crowding. New pics at the bottom ...]
I'm certainly not what you'd call an experienced beekeeper -- although I'd been around them a bit 20 years ago, we just acquired our first hive this Spring. I'd been looking forward to it for months.
After separating the honey from the big chunks of wax with a collander, we ran the honey through a screen sieve before decanting to jars.
Linden honey is considered to be a very fine type of honey. It's light in color, and has a wonderful, almost minty flavor that I'd never tasted before. |
Penny gave me a top bar hive last Christmas, and through the same local beekeeper who sold her the hive, boxed up a swarm of bees in May. The beekeeper had been contacted by another beekeeper in nearby Arvada, who had a vigorous hive that had swarmed, resulting in a big ball of bees on a nearby shrub.
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