Brood frames with brood cells.

Setting up new hives

The honey bees are trying to get into the little box with the queen. You can see the white sugar plug on the left.

Here are three new hives, with the bees just put in, ready to be covered and left.





Here are the three new hives ready to be covered up.














From near to far, an older-established hive, three new hives with the parcel boxes propped up in front, and then the remaining older-established hives.

Harvesting honey

Here is Chris out in the field, gathering the honey supers and chasing the bees out.



















Here he is taking the wax caps off of a frame using a heated knife.




















He then puts four de-capped frames into the extractor, which spins the honey out.