Yield per hive, and what it tells you that a season total cannot.
Honey is ready when the bees say so, and they say it with wax. The share of capped cells that makes a frame safe to take, the shake test for the rest, what water content means and how a refractometer settles it, when in the season to take the supers off, and what to leave behind.
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From capped frames to clear jars in a day. The kit you need, how uncapping works, the difference between tangential and radial extractors, crush and strain for a hive or two, filtering and settling, bottling, and what to do with the wet supers and the cappings afterwards.
Read the post »A season total tells you whether it was a good year. A per-hive figure tells you which colonies earned their keep, which were carried by the others, and what to do with each group. It costs one minute at the extractor.
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