One of the most significant rewards for keeping your colonies healthy and productive is tasting the fresh honey straight from your own bee hives. Learn about different methods of harvesting honey and the tools and equipment you can use to extract and bottle a high-quality product.

0:00 – Harvesting Honey
0:37 – Removing honey from the hive
1:00 – Bee escape boards
1:43 – Brushing and blowing bees
3:24 – Fume boards
5:30 – Cut comb honey
8:31 – Chunk honey
8:42 – Crush & Strain method
10:52 – Extracted honey
12:46 – Extracting equipment
14:11 – Uncapping knives
15:10 – Uncapping tank
16:34 – Uncapping fork
17:00 – Extractors
20:32 – Straining honey
23:13 – Settling & bottling honey
24:28 – The final product
25:44 – Cleaning up
27:57 – Storing empty honeycombs

For more information on Bee Keeping, visit: https://www.uaex.uada.edu/bees
For a printable handout, visit: https://uaex.uada.edu/bee-class#handouts
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