Tell Your Mom She is Sweet, Gift Her a Honey Treat! My girl bees produce a premium product because they are treatment free and never fed sugar water. The bees roam the rural countryside of north woods Wisconsin where they have the same pollen and weeds as the Madison area. They live a good life which translates into a super tasting experience.
Porch pick up from my house a few blocks north of Prairie Athletic Club in Sun Prairie. PM me your jar reservation, date and time for pick up and I’ll relay the pick up address.
Available in glass canning jars: 5 oz is $5, quarter pint jar 10 oz is $10, half pint jar 22 oz is $22, pint jar 45 oz is $45, quart jar
Cash only. All sales final. Prompt pick up please with no holds beyond a day as my supply is limited. Buzz Ya later and Thank you!
Stampin’ Up! hosted a virtual cruise in May instead of hosting us on a boat or resort. It was my first cruise earned in my 18 years and counting career as an Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator. So I was a tiny bit disappointed to not be able to experience it in person where I did not have to cook for a week;) Yes, you know I am foodie and make good meals and treats. But having to not cook for a week sounds amazing! Anyhoo…
We received a compensation payment along with a box of spa gifts including a spa robe, coffee mugs, candle, air pods and a product credit.
I have been mulling options for where to invest the payment and have opted to make a gift from my Stampin’ Up! business to my honey beekeeping business. This shiny metal cylinder was just picked up yesterday.
It’s a honey extractor which will allow me to bottle honey this year instead of selling cut comb. All that golden goodness in bottles is a pretty prospect! If you are local to me and want to reserve a bottle, click the contact button and let me know to place you on the list.
I had such fun gifting the crush and strained honey last year as shown in this photo.
Having an extractor will allow me to return the empty comb back to the bees so they don’t have to work so hard at making honey. This a full frame of capped honey which holds about 8 pounds of honey. The top wax “cap” is scrapped off. Then the frame is placed in the extractor and spun. Out flows the honey from bottom honey gate after it passes through a few screens.
My cruise payout is an investment that will help me grow my beekeeping and honey producing business at a faster and more productive rate. Here is a photo of the bees working the frames and building the precious comb that will eventually hold the nectar, bee babies, bee bread and honey.
If you are interested in seeing me work my horizontal hives and all the associated parts to growing an apiary, check out my Youtube channel, Beelog with Super Bee Shirley and BBS Bees through the video below. Gotta do something when I am not in the stamp room! Climbing into a hot bee suit is where it’s at! Thank you Stampin’ Up! for the generous payout!
So I thought I would post about my bees. That’s honey bees living in the great up north (semi) wilderness. I visit with them every few weeks and take lots of video footage. Back in my stamp space, I take the evenings to edit footage and post the videos to my BeeLog Youtube channel. (I work the stamp business during the week days and take the weekends off).
This is a sight and smell I’ll always enjoy…fresh comb building and a heavy, sweet scent of a thriving hive. The hive noise is something to enjoy too, a slow and steady hum of activity.
The trip this time was to move this swarm into a hive box.
Of course, I have video of the transfer in my Swarm Trap Youtube playlist.
Also checked up on the frog watering bowl.
The Om Bee One hive had thousands of bees at work during the latest inspection. See frames of capped honey in this video. Before the honey arrives on a dinner table in a mason jar, the frames will need to be removed the hive, cells uncapped and the entire frame then spun in a centrifuge. Lots of work ahead for me and the bees! The bees need to reduce the water content on the uncapped cells before they deem the liquid is honey and cap the cell. I need to rustle up the honey extraction equipment:)
Here is a look at a fraction of the worker bees chilling in the empty spot of the Om Bee One hive.
My Mom and I are having fun making signs which the bees blissfully ignore…
Hope you enjoy coming along with me on my bee keeping journey! Share this post and my Beelog Youtube channel with your friends!
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