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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on September 03, 2014, 04:51:16 pm
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My Honey
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDcajdIm2s&list=PLNLJWEAaLbVsUP-IZAKxFJOMkS28rQUq5
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Looks like hummingbird feed! Lol! seriously, congrats!
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You will get no finer honey than your first harvest.
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FOUR YEARS???
Jen, could you fill in a little of that for me, please?
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congrats jen, the sweet reward, a long time coming, for your first harvest!
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Congratulations, Jen. It'll be the best honey you ever tasted.
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Congrats Jen. I remember the feeling very well.
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Congraulations Jen! I can relate. I think my first honey cost about $200 per pound, give or take $50. Tough getting started in a drought
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That honey is the same color as my prickly pear jelly. Have you been feeding your bees "kool aid?" :):) Seriously, congratulations on having a honey harvest.
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Congrats Jen! Make sure you save a small jar from your first harvest. It's as good as it gets.
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Gypsi- "Congraulations Jen! I can relate. I think my first honey cost about $200 per pound, give or take $50. Tough getting started in a drought
I hear ya Sista! We are well over the $200 a pound mark. Lots of casualties these last four seasons. I hadn't the slightest idea what to do with a beehive when I brought my first one home. Had to learn a lot the hard way, but that is my destiny in this lifetime ;) and now I won't be able to live without a beehive ;)
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" I hadn't the slightest idea what to do with a beehive when I brought my first one home. Had to learn a lot the hard way, but that is my destiny in this lifetime ;) and now I won't be able to live without a beehive ;)"
now you do.......to your credit jen, you hung in there, and much like gypsy has had with different challenges. as far as learning the hard way, we all do in one form or another. living without a beehive.....hmmmm, can't imagine that thought....... :D
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Thanks Riv - You've been a great cheerleader for all of us ~ hugs
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Looks great. Make sure you save a few jars for a few years ahead------someday you'll want to have that special taste come back, or share it with someone special. Like putting your wine in keeping for improving with age. I don't know if honey improves, but it doesn't go bad and the memories are worth it.
Great going Jen.
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congratulations! what beautiful Honey! enjoy it!
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it looks quite a bit like what I think of as prairie honey here.... which I guess is various wildflowers.
pretty is good but how does it taste?
congrads on your first crop and may you have many many more...
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hehehehe the video is hilarious! LOL congrats on the honey!
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I honestly tried to watch that video, honest! I figured it was gonna be a chick flic kinda thing, but I thought I'd give it a go anyways.
I couldn't get past half way cause of all the shrieking!
Sorry, but I really did try. :D
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Your honey is very pretty. :)
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Ahahah... Thanks Perry for your couragous attempt :D I figured the women would understand, it's a gurl thang ;)
Hi Tec, Yes it is wildflower honey, it's very dense in texture, slow pouring, with a pungeunt taste and a good after bite. It's the honey that local beeks sell in the winter when they've run out of yellow star thistle.
Ef, I like that idea of putting some away for special occasions. The jars are already marked 'First Harvest August 27, 2014' (giggling)
In all honesty tho, if I hadn't been guided to this forum in early January, I don't know where I would be right now with my hives, probably no hives at all! I wouldn't have known what to do, or how to catch all those swarms ya know? And now I have 4 hives AND HONEY!! I'm still staring at it glowing in the window LOL
Thanks Everyone!
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well thanks for hanging in there and as I seem to be saying more and more now day..... persistence is an essential characteristic in a beekeeper and also seem to be in short supply these days.
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Thanks Tec :) 8)