Honey 2.0

Last weekend was a full one. The jugglers from Long Beach came up for the Second Annual Genoa Street Juggling Festival. It was a slightly smaller turn out this year with only three jugglers came up, Will, Rhonda, and Aidee. Bill, my brother, who came last year is now living here but, unfortunately, he had to work most of the weekend. He's the best dressed one in the video, ready for work.



Saturday was a juggling and BBQ day. Sunday was an urban farm day combined with some juggling and socializing. Rachel and Sophie came over to harvest honey from their hive so we had an operation going in the new garage, which was the perfect place to have that set up, while others were out juggling and snacking.  The operation went a lot more smoothly last year and we beat the previous harvest by ten pounds. They got fifty pounds of honey out of about twelve frames.

All jarred up.

Staging on the new hive stand I built. The peach colored box is a super and that super had eight frames. You can see the capped honey on the visible frame. The comb in the bowl was some free form construction the bees made. The brown comb didn't really have anything in it but the whitish one was full of honey and were able to bite of chunks of it for fresh honey from the source. Delicious.

An uncapped frame right before placing it in the extractor.

I built a new stand for the hives. I made room for at least one more hive with space between them to fit a super while inspecting the hives. The hive on the left is Rachel and Sophie's. The blue one is mine.