First honey harvest of 2008

We have taken our first honey harvest of the season, it was raining so we had to wear waterproofs over our beesuits. The majority of our honey is collected in full depth supers (Langstroth), we took twenty from this site each holding between 20 and 30lbs of honey



We took the crop from this site as it contains oil seed rape honey which, if left on the hives will set hard in the comb making extraction difficult.
In the end we were only able to extract about 220lbs from these supers as some had set in the comb preventing effective extraction. These supers will be returned to the hives as soon as possible for the bees to fill again.