Hello. So we extracted honey a while ago...

                                              Frames awaiting foundation.                                                  

                                         ...and more frames awaiting foundation.

 
                                                          Supers with frames.

                                    Bottom board with supers in the background.

                                             Teddy taking a break from patrolling...

                                                        Feeding the bees.

                                                           Beehives...

And more beehives.

                                     

                                  Supers with frames of honey ready to be extracted....  

Frames of Honey that need to be extracted

                                                      Light House Honey

                                             Light House Honey ready to be extracted.

Dark House Honey, ready to be extracted.

                                  This is what you get when you drive home 30 minutes
                                   with supers full of honey that need to be extracted...

                                         
                                       The Beekeeper's wife wants know when she
                                       will get her house back from all the honey.

                                                         We had a little snow...

 

The hives that lasted the winter.  

Since we went from about 27 hives, to a meager 17, we like to/have other sources of bees.

 

Newly purchased bees

 

A feral hive, courtesy of City of Columbia tree cutting 

Look at what our Resident Bee-Keeper is doing today:

                              The backyard.  Beehive, bees, and Bee-Keeper - Oh, My!
 

     Our Resident Backyard Bee-Keeper - completely surrounded by bees, 

and at the same-time trying to deal with the swarm. Way to go!

Beehive. Can you see all those bees at the entrance? 

In March we successfully captured a wild honey bee swam. The swam was spotted in a bush at a business park. The Sprite can was used as a bait to draw them out from under the bush. It was a spur of the moment capture with available materials. Fortunately the beekeeper had his suit and a spare box on hand. Here he is inserting a few frames into the hive box.

The swam gathered under the bush and pine straw.

The beekeeper began to lift out the hive as the bees clustered on twigs. Notice the black specks appearing on the white suit. 

Here the hive is starting to swam around the box as the queen was successfully located. 

Done!

 

Hello and welcome to Carolina Haven! Between our backyard and Swansea tree farm there are 17 hives. This is important to note as the honey taste varies from each location and season. The backyard honey has a light blossom flavor and the property honey has a variety of fruit flavors.  With the winter weather coming we would like to share some pictures of the snow covered hives from last February. We did not have so many then as we do now. Here is a front picture of the covered hives.

A side view showing the hives in the back. 

Another side view

When the weather warmed up we removed the plastic covering leaving the burlap.