Here is Ethan working the bees. I told him that he is such a blessing to our family. He has taken Brandon under his wing teaching him how to keep bees. When Ethan gets a call from someone to come and get a swarm he stops by and picks up Brandon and takes him along to show him how it is done. When it was time to harvest our orange blossom honey Ethan took Brandon for the extracting process. Bran is learning so much. I hope beekeeping becomes a lifelong hobby for him. Ethan, thanks for all you do and we love you!!!
Here is a proud beekeeper-in training. Can you tell we had a warm, sunny Florida day? Brandon was playing outside with no shirt on!
Ethan gave us a "thumbs-up" on the condition of the beehive. He said they looked very healthy. I was a little concerned because we had an unusually harsh winter with many days below freezing.
Here they are, all loaded and ready to go! The hives were replaced with empty supers so our energetic little bees can get to work on some delicious orange blossom honey, which is my favorite!! The orange groves start blooming in March and the season for orange blossom honey is over about the middle of April. So, get busy all you Florida bees!
Notice in the background that we now have two hives. Several months ago we had a swarm of bees come by our back yard and they stopped in a tree in the back pasture. Ethan came to our rescue. He and Brandon gathered them and he gave them to Brandon to start a second hive.
I can't wait to find out how much honey we will get from these supers. I'll give an update as soon as we get the honey in jars!
2 comments:
Thats awesome. Tell Brandon we still have another swarm in the front bushes if he wants them! If not we need to get Ethan back out for these before they get Landen.
this is so amazing!! i still don't understand how you are to maintain a bee hive, its honey, start new a bee home, clean it, just can't understand but yum yum i do?
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