Our First Honey!

I’m about a month late on writing this, but in June, we extracted our first honey! It was absolutely amazing to take a box from the hive we’ve been working for the last year, cut the caps on the honeycombs, spin and pull out the honey.

The rich, beautiful, smooth nectar that poured into our first bottles was just perfection! As there is in everything, we had a learning curve….things to do better and more efficiently next time, but for a first time, our first box…we were thrilled! Here’s a quick photo recap of the process…..

Full Circle Farm KY apiary.

Cutting the caps off the honeycomb.

Spinning the honey out of the honeycomb.

Cleaning off the edges…

Filtering out the impurities.

Still filtering. Amazingly rich, golden color!

Filling our first bottle!

A year in the making….literally!

We pulled about 20 pounds of honey from our first box off our first hive!

Seeing and working this process from start to finish has been so rewarding! We are hoping for one more draw at the end of the summer, then for all four hives to produce next year.

We love enjoying our own honey, right off the farm, and have heard wonderful testimonies from friends who purchased a bottle!

~Jules