Beehive honey harvest in May

A quick post about our honey harvest yesterday. We noticed that the Flow hives were getting full, so harvested over three gallons of honey from them:

Flow honey harvest

The bees on the cedar hive were bearding quite impressively; I guess it was too hot in there (GIF):

Bees GIF

I also took the opportunity to move some of the spare beekeeping equipment into the recently-completed bee shed:

Beekeeping equipment in the bee shed

Jenn double-filtered the harvested honey, and transferred it into 24 pints and 5 smaller jars:

Honey

Not that we needed more honey; we’re still working our way through last year’s harvest. Everyone who visits our homestead has to take home a jar of honey and a carton of eggs!

Betty’s ducklings on May 30 and 31

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Yesterday evening the ducklings had their first taste of mealworm treats… and they really liked them, unsurprisingly:

Ducks and ducklings with mealworm treats

Ducks and ducklings with mealworm treats

Ducks and ducklings with mealworm treats

This morning — Bert, Betty, and ducklings:

Bert, Betty, and ducklings

Bert, Betty, and ducklings

Betty and her ducklings; yes, there are still five; four together and one further back:

Betty and ducklings

One on a pot island:

Betty and ducklings