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spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

CuddleChunks posted:

Over the years my parents had their hives they would take the honey to a local beekeeper for processing and then come home with jars and jars and tubs of honey.

Beginning Beekeeping: http://www.badbeekeeping.com/howtobee.htm

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Ten hives with an extractor to separate combs from honey and
all the other stuff required will be about three thousand bucks.

So, if I have room for a pair of hives on my roof...I still need something else to actually get honey in a jar?

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spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

CuddleChunks posted:

For homebrew extraction you could probably even warm things up a bit and just tilt the honeycomb over a bowl and let gravity do its work. You may want to pass it through a tight metal mesh a second time to strain out any bits of non-honey but that should get you something to spread on crepes or whatever.

Thanks. It sounds pretty interesting.

So, as long as I have a big of spare roof space (and some flowers reasonably near by), I could keep a couple of hives for not much effort and enjoy that sweet, sweet honey!

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