Guests of the Mindcast know the definition of delicious. It comes in the form of pure, home-made (well, plant-made, bee-finished, and my home-extracted) “HONEY.”
Note the use of all-capital letters - it was customary for honey that came from a single source to be labeled this way to distinguish it from more processed and mixed-source “Honey.” It’s still honey in either case, but it loses some of the unique distinctiveness when multiple sources are mixed together. Honey is not honey is not honey. Would you mix together a Kenwood Merlot, some Beaujolais from France, and “Two Buck Chuck” Charles Shaw? Didn’t think so.
Anyway, I’ll talk about the various flavors that you might find in honey some other time, but I just wanted to show [off] what I’m eagerly anticipating:
Mmmm…. honey. What you see here are full frames of honeycomb on a plasticell foundation. That means that I put a sheet of plastic with a honeycomb pattern inside of this frame, and the bees built their wax comb off of it, filled it up with honey, and capped the cells with wax. If you want a really close look at this frame, click here.
I have 9 more of those frames in this “super” alone. I use the plastic sheet because it holds itself up during hot weather and while centrifuging.
Tonight I’m venturing out to check on my hives, and see how they are doing in the ultra-hot weather the Central Valley is experiencing, and of course, check out how much honey is waiting to be extracted. You see, I just bought a new centrifuge today to extract honey this week!
I shall waste no more time, cheerio! If anyone needs me I’ll be playing with my hives. And only sundown can pull me away…
