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!
Honey Harvest 2024 is here and it’s oh so sweet! Spooky too, boo!
The process started on Saturday with a (hot) afternoon in the bee suit pulling from Gnome Sweet Gnome and Greenie Hives.
Sunday was extraction day…photos show a full frame of capped honey and then upcapped and ready to be placed in the centrifuge. Yes, it’s all manual labor using the uncapping fork shown at the bottom of the photo.
After centrifuging, the honey is sieved to remove any wax parts that were centrifuged with the honey.
My bees and hives are treatment free and never fed sugar water so you are getting the best nature has to offer! They roam the rural, Arkansaw, WI woodlands gathering nectar, pollen and tree sap to maintain their health and keep the hive humming.
Final product is so pretty! And Halloweeny too 😉
Three jar sizes are available…photo props not included 😉 Those are my wool applique spooky night scene for Halloween…
Glass canning jars hold all the goodness for the upcoming winter season and beyond.
A teaspoon a day in hot tea, over ice cream or added to oatmeal adds a little sweetness to your day!
Available in:
10 oz/283 grams is $10 (half pint jar) and perfect to nestle into gift baskets!
22 oz/624 grams is $22 (pint jar) and gets you through to January!
45 oz/1275 grams is $45 (quart jar) and brings you into spring!
Porch pick up from my house in Sun Prairie, WI or delivery in the Durand, WI area during Halloween week. Make a drive to the Arkansaw, WI, countryside where the bees live and pick up at the end of the driveway available too. Please click the Contact button my blog and let me know which city and appointment time works for you. Thank you so much for supporting my bee buzziness!
Buzz Ya Later!
Super Bee Shirley and BBS Bees
P.S. See the bees on my Youtube channel here! This is a link to the honey frame pull from last year as I have been busy getting the honey ready for you the last few days. I’ll be posting 2024 videos in the upcoming months as the gardens shut down and I spend more time indoors. Thanks again!
It been buzzing at my house this week…honey was extracted on Monday with the bottles of honey goodness being picked up from my Halloween house. Honey sale details are at the end of this post.
Jar tags feature dsp that has gold comb and a bumble bee. The background print is from my super fun Halloween pants. I complete the look with an orange polo and candy corn mask.
And guess what, the print is glow in the dark with cobwebs glowing!
Visits to my senior living communities are this week too. So in between a sticky mess, I have been sharing the glow in the dark ghosts and bats on Halloween cards with fun treats shared as well (no tricks here ;). My last community was gracious enough to shift my visit to earlier in the week last month. When I told them why (needed that day to decorate cakes for a wedding reception treat table), they said they would be taste tasters. I baked lemon macarons and carrot mini cupcakes for a festive treat.
The honey harvest takes a full day with a short break for lunch. I still have some clean up to do with lots of hot water that will go in the garden since wax will be melted from equipment. The waste water does not go down the drain. I’ll post videos showing the honey frame pull from the hives and the extraction process to my Youtube channel when they are edited later next week.
If you are interested in my small batch honey, know that my bees are treatment free and never fed sugar water. They roam the countryside in rural Arkansaw, WI where the ecology is varied and vibrant, winds are stiff and the winter is harsh. It all makes for a premium honey to be enjoyed by the spoonful or in tisanes.
The golden goodness is bottled in glass jars accordingly:
quart sized jar is 45 ounces of honey for $45 (stocked for the winter)
pint sized jar is 22 ounces of honey for $22 (enjoy frequently)
half pint sized jars are $10 (perfect for gifting and charcuterie boards)
How fast you enjoy it is up to you. I find that a spoonful a day in my morning tea is plenty to keep my energy up. Click the contact button to request honey pick up from my Halloween house in Sun Prairie, WI or pick up/delivery near Durand, WI. Email works too if you have my email address. The girls and Me thank you so much for your support as the work is hot and sticky!
Last, this is what is NOT suppose to happen inside the bee hive. They were building on the attic when they still had room on the frames. The girls do make hive inspections interesting!
Underneath the wood bars seen in the photo above is where the bees live. At different times throughout the season, comb cells are filled with growing baby bees, nectar which they turn into honey and pollen which they turn into bee bread that is feed to the baby fees. Over the winter, they cluster inside the cells to conserve warmth and slowly enjoy their honey they worked all summer for.
Here is a typical fully filled and wax capped honey frame. The wax cap needs to be scrapped off so the honey can be spun out in the extractor. I’ll share the extraction process in my Youtube video later next week. Until then, Buzz Ya Later!
I am excited to announce that I enrolled in the Farley Center Beekeeper Incubator Program!
Did having a new line of bee paper crafting accessories sway my decision? I’ll admit a tiny bit of swaying was involved.
I had been thinking about learning this craft for awhile. Hives use to be installed close to where my parents live for many years. We do not know who kept the hives but they have since disappeared. So it’s time to give the bees a new home in the area and offer the plants a boost from these little friends.
I always have a jar (and sometimes more that a jar, a honey stash is always approved;) of local honey on my shelf from my favorite apple orchard, Lapacek’s. It’s a nice drive in the country to the orchard. The reward is a variety of local yummies grown on their farm. They have goats and kitties to visit too.
I pick up jars of honey from local festivals too. My latest snatch is a jar from the last 2019 gathering at the Farley Center. It’s oh so good in winter hot teas and fruit smoothies! A tiny bit for quick energy is a good snack too.
Oh yes, I’ll be sharing bee themed paper crafts too. The Honey Bee stamp set and Detailed Bees dies are available for purchase through May. But the Golden Honey Specialty designer series paper is only available free with purchase through March. I have it all and a nice stash of the paper too. See a fancy folded card using these products in this blog post.
I’ll be blogging about my new beekeeping experiences so check back throughout the year for the latest adventure. Hope you enjoy my beekeeping adventure posts!
I had been thinking about learning this craft for awhile. Hives use to be installed close to where my parents live for many years. We do not know who kept the hives but they have since disappeared. So it’s time to give the bees a new home in the area and offer the plants a boost from these little friends.
Super Awesome Stamper 