Straining honey takes some thought. Why are you wanting to strain your honey? What is in the honey that you need to strain it? With what equipment or material do you use to strain the honey? How do you prepare the honey in order to strain it?
Just after extracting, there are bees and […]

To strain honey you need a 5 gallon bucket. Cut the bottom out and leave about 1/2″ to 3/4″ inside the the bucket. This is for a screen to sit on. Then cut the top out of a lid. Sit the bucket inside the cutout and using a hot glue gun, glue it […]

I have this upright freezer that has been modified into a honey heater. The motor has been disconnected from the electrical wires. Two light receptacles were hung in the freezer, one on the inside left wall just higher than a 5 gallon bucket and one on the opposite inside wall, same height. The electric power […]

I was abruptly, but nicely reminded that you cannot get out of an inspection even if you have a certificate stating that the bees have already been inspected. I received that same certificate in the mail from the Florida State Dept of Plant Industry, Apiary Inspection. I called […]

Thursday, I got to the school late. My alarm didn’t wake me and it is an hour and a half drive from my home. Anyway, I arrived and got the third period students to help me wash buckets, set up the extracting area, and get the extractor ready to go. By that […]

After the state convention, I spent couple of days with my son’s family in Orlando, FL. We played golf until about 1:15 Monday afternoon. That’s when I started back home to Pensacola. I had already planned to pull honey on the way home.
I spent the night at a friend’s home in Chipley. […]

Well, I made it to the state convention in plenty of time. I arrived in Haines City, FL about 9:30 pm on Wed. Oct. 31st. Spent the night and made it to the Holiday Inn in Winter Haven at about 6:45 am Thursday. The first activity was for the CEU’s for the […]

Wednesday I had an appointment to go to a grade school to participate in a Country Day activity.  This is where the different farming and agriculture instructors set in classrooms or in the playground and the students are moved from one station to the next.  Each instructor has about 20 minutes to tell about their […]