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| It's hive time! |
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| Time to collect honey for the first time ever! |
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| We smoked the bees to confuse their sense of smell. |
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| We removed the top two boxes to bring them inside. |
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| Here is the queen excluder. It keeps her from laying eggs in the boxes above this grate. She can't fit through the slots. |
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| We took the frames out of the boxes in a warm, clean room (aka our laundry room). |
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| Proud Papa! |
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| A heated knife scraps the caps off the comb. |
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| Really satisfying. And harder than it looks. |
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| Alison and Brennan helped us. |
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| The wax caps and extra honey fell down. The honey collected in the bottom of this basin. |
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| But the real extraction happened here: The Extractor! (Notice the tomato can 'throttle.') |
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| It spun really fast. |
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| And honey came oozing out. |
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| 2.5 gallons! And it tastes so good. |
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| Yay! |
