Honey Harvest 2023 ~ spring swarms, harvesting, extraction, bottling, and beeswax of whole season! 🍯

🌱 Welcome to GrowCookPreserve. I'm Kelly.

This season, I achieved my most significant harvest yet, with over 300 lbs. of honey collected. Join me as I guide you through an entire beekeeping season, from the initial spring nectar flow to the final stages of harvesting, extracting, bottling, and even processing beeswax. Beekeeping is not only an exhilarating endeavor but also a surprisingly meditative one, offering unique insights and tranquility. For your convenience, I've included chapters below, allowing you to jump directly to the highlights or parts you're most interested in. Thank you for visiting, and I hope you find this journey through beekeeping as rewarding as I do!

- timestamps -

00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Adding honey supers in the spring
02:05 - Catching a double swarm
04:16 - Collecting honey from the hives
16:11 - First day of extracting—uncapping the frames
20:39 - First day of bottling
21:31 - Making and printing labels
22:44 - What happens to the wax cappings?
23:20 - Days 2~4
25:36 - Hand-cutting beautiful honeycomb
28:05 - Honeybees cleaning wax cappings
28:15 - Filtering beeswax
29:32 - Returning empty honey supers to hives for cleanup

[TheUrbanBeekeepers]

A bee produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey over her lifespan, I try to keep that in mind when working with honey and avoid as much waste as possible.

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I could listen to you talk for the rest of my life.

Peace from Australia.

[iambilly]

Your quiet, calm and confident demeanor is captivating. A real pleasure to watch, thank you for sharing

[arabracer]

Thank you for filling in some of the "holes" I have in my bee keeping!

[Awfullyhotcoffeepot]

Best beekeeping video I’ve ever watched. 👍

[aimeewalsh]

Me and my boyfriend have been looking for a new beekeeper to watch as we love honey and honey harvesting videos. The video was so satisfying and enjoyable to watch i love how you showed us everything you do and your voice is so calming to listen to! Keep up the good work it looks delicious, you have two new eager subscribers!! ❤❤

[danplatt]

Amazing content by an amazing beekeeper! Thank you for sharing your success with us.

[swagger]

Fantastic video, I’m just getting into beekeeping for the first time and hopefully one day if successful I will be harvesting my own honey 🤞here in Liverpool England.

[babsstvn]

gente essa moça é uma querida, amei ela

[demarcomartin]

My mouth is wide open in awe! You are amazing, you do that by yourself is awesome! Cut honey comb. I bet that’s delicious! You have educated me, much respect for the bees and what you do.

[xavierm]

Beautiful, relaxing, and very sweet!

[mattchiswell]

What an absolute pleasure to watch.

Relaxing, insightful and so beautifully made.

Sincerely….. Thank you.

[dandonahue]

good job!! i pull honey the same way, one frame at a time. much easier than lifting them all. was a great year, got 35 gallons off a doz hives.

[UnifedCreation]

I really enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for sharing 💛

[sarbearsleeps]

WHO DOESN'T LIKE HONEY?! 😱
Seriously I absolutely prefer the dark Sourwood honey (at least that's what we call it here in WNC), that has a deep, intense flavor. 😍

[rudyardgomeas]

new beekeeper here, tried to start smoker, never would. We don't have pine needles, but I have pellets. I lost an entire hive first time, but apparently another bee swarm killed mine and stole all the honey. I look forward to learning from you. Thank you.

[JennaJones-pidi]

I really did enjoy this video. So beautiful to watch

[justinlaymance]

Awesome video my dad kept bees when I was younger and I've been thinking about doing it again

[hummingcatfish]

This is amazing! I just love watching how this is done and I love how peaceful you are. You are an inspiration

[hassanodeh]

Very valuable information thank you for sharing it with us and introducing us to the bee community. 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹